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Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO

Kyle Dansie, dansie@ibm.net

v2.4, 10 January 1999

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This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Home of this document

2. Quick Start

3. Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive

• 3.1 SCSI version

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. Using the ZIP drive

• 5.1 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
• 5.2 An existing DOS formatted disk
• 5.3 Re-format as a native Linux disk
• 5.4 fstab entries
• 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

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