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Yo dude, attached is i script for installing a parallel zip drive. The
script has been written for red hat, so you mite need to edit it a bit. <br>
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Good luck.<br>
L.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Thanks for the reply, sorry about being slightly of topic.<br><br>The Zip drive is a parallel one, I assume that the /dev/sda4 means a<br>serial device or does it mean a SCSI device?<br><br>Thanks<br>Ian<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Howzit;<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">hi there<br><br>I am running Mandrake 8.2, and I am trying to get an ZIP 100 external<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->disk <br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">drive to work. Harddrake is unable to detect the ZIP drive (below is<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">/etc/fstab file), I have read on the web that the zip drive should be<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">/dev/sda4 but I have checked and there is no file in the /dev<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->directory.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Any advice would be nice<br>Ian<br><br>#file fstab<br>/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults 1 1<br>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0<br>none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2<br>/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount <br>dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0<br>/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount <br>dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0<br>/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount <br>dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">none /proc proc defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>First you must let us know if drive is paraller or SCSI. You must also<br>know if <br>it is SCSI device number. Look on back side of ZIP drive there is a<br>switch <br>with device numbers. Anyway this question is a bit off topic here.<br><br>- -- <br>*IN ROOT WE TRUST!*<br>Marian Stepka <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:stepka@tris.sk">mailto:stepka@tris.sk</a><br>If you would like to support me buy me anything from my wish list at<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/UOEKRXWFAFPX/">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/UOEKRXWFAFPX/</a><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: For info see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gnupg.org">http://www.gnupg.org</a><br><br>iD8DBQE8170oKwIAwKzInp8RArfbAJ0XgupGyDIq9W3mWf/axr56Sn3JFACg1RRi<br>FYwLtYIRpfeiIgqk4YynzwM=<br>=xSQm<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br>_______
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