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Skriven 2005-03-17 09:07:10 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
   Kommentar till text 2379 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Linux 9.0
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Hello MARTIN!

16 Mar 05 22:33, you wrote to ROGER NELSON:

 RN>> Does anyone have a useful suggestion on how to access a ZIP drive?
 RN>> I have permissions for everything and have even gone to Google
 RN>> groups looking for the solution, but nothing has worked.  I even
 RN>> upgraded to 10.1 and that didn't work, either.  The ZIP drive is
 RN>> the only thing I can't access.

 MA> You will have to forgive my ignorance but what is a ZIP drive?
 MA> Is it some kind of USB thing or a drive that has been zipped.

Its a product put out by IOMEGA, they use optical removable media about the
same dimensions of a floppy disk but 2+ times as thick. The drives and disks
come in 3 different capacities, 100 meg, 250 meg, 750 meg. Drives can be
internal IDE or external USB. Early models of the External ZIP drive also used
parallel port with a pass through port on it for the printer.

A 100 meg drive can only use the 100 meg disks

A 250 meg drive can use both 100 meg and 250 meg disks

A 750 meg drive can use 250 and 750 meg disks, 100 meg disks as read only.

Excellent to do some rudamentary backups and to transport data between
computers, like home/work. Drives arent that fast and are slowly being
subverted by the USB flash drives, small enough to fit on a keychain, bout the
same size as a BIC cigarette lighter and capacities growing, 32 meg up to 2
gig. (whats on shelves now)

 MA> Can Mandrake control center see it? If you do "dmseg" is it being
 MA> seen on boot up. Can you mount it but not read it? Any way i assume
 MA> you have "zip" and "unzip" installed.

Both my Suse installations saw my internal ZIP drives and I generally
mount/dismount media from an ICON on the X desktop.

==
Ross
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