Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO
Kyle Dansie,
dansie@ibm.net
v2.2, 26 August 1998
This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.
1.
Introduction
1.1 Home of this document
2.
Quick Start
3.
The ZIP drive
3.1 Parallel port version
3.2 SCSI external version
3.3 The SCSI Internal version
3.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver
3.5 ATAPI version
3.6 IDE version
4.
Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive
4.1 SCSI version
4.2 PPA driver for 1.2.13
4.3 PPA driver in current kernels
4.4 PPA command line parameters
5.
Using the ZIP drive
5.1 Identifying the drive at boot time
5.2 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
5.3 An existing DOS formatted disk
5.4 Re-format as a native Linux disk
5.5 The ZIP Tools disk
6.
Performance
7.
Frequently asked questions
7.1 Can I plug a printer into the parallel ZIP drive ?
7.2 Do you plan to support EPP/ECP ports in PPA ?
7.3 Can I run Linux from a ZIP drive ?
7.4 Can I boot from the ZIP drive ?
7.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ?
7.6 How can I have the disk mounted at boot time ?
7.7 What happens if there is no disk inserted when I boot ?
7.8 Can I use the parallel drive as a real SCSI disk ?
7.9 Can PPA be used with Iomega's parallel port tape drives ?
7.10 Will PPA work with the parallel port SyQuest EZ135 ?
8.
Getting more current information