Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO
Kyle Dansie, dansie@ibm.net
v2.5, 07 March 2002
This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.
1. Introduction
2. Quick Start
3. Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive
4. The ZIP drive
- 4.1 Parallel port version Zip100
- 4.2 SCSI external version
- 4.3 The SCSI Internal version
- 4.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver
- 4.5 ATAPI version
- 4.6 IDE version
- 4.7 USB version
- 4.8 ZIP250 version
5. Troubleshooting Install
6. Using the ZIP drive
- 6.1 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
- 6.2 An existing DOS formatted disk
- 6.3 Re-format as a native Linux disk
- 6.4 fstab entries
- 6.5 The ZIP Tools disk
7. Performance
8. Frequently asked questions
- 8.1 Can I plug a printer into the parallel ZIP drive ?
- 8.2 Do you plan to support EPP/ECP ports in PPA ?
- 8.3 Can I run Linux from a ZIP drive ?
- 8.4 Can I boot from the ZIP drive ?
- 8.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ?
- 8.6 How can I have the disk mounted at boot time ?
- 8.7 What happens if there is no disk inserted when I boot ?
- 8.8 Can I use the parallel drive as a real SCSI disk ?
- 8.9 Can PPA be used with Iomega's parallel port tape drives ?
- 8.10 Will PPA work with the parallel port SyQuest EZ135 ?
9. Getting more current information
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