drive assignments

[Thomas Ward]

Yes. I have an internal zip 100 in my computer, and the zip disks work
fineright out of the box.
Just make sure your zip drive works fine on your usb port, parallel port, or
ide port depending on which type you have.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda at shellworld.net>
To: "linux - speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: drive assignments


> Thanks as this Compaq 200MHZ box I may install Linux on has a zip drive
> and would like to archive items onto the zip cartridges prior to
> reformatting the drive.
>
> One question: can Linux read the format of a zip cartridge?
>
> Amanda Lee
> Alexandria, VA
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, randy turner wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > hi,
> > i would like to add that if you have a zip drive
> > that the mount for it would be /dev/sda4
> > thanks
> > randy
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >
> > > For drive assignments, I need to explain the following and I hope it
> > > doesn't geet too deep too fast. I honestly can't remember where I
first
> > > learned this so that's why I figured to post this kind of stuff to the
> > > list and to our new our new friend here.
> > > First off, Linux doesn't use drive letters, that's a DOS/windows
thing.
> > > All drives in Linux begin with a path name like /hda1, /hdb2, /hdc1 or
> > > /sda1, /sdb1, etc. The /hd? names go with IDE drives and /sd? names go
> > > with SCSI type drives. I should say that all these drive names
actually
> > > begin with /dev/whatever but for brevity, I'll leave out the /dev part
> > > here; just lazy, I guess. /hda is the first drive on the first IDE
> > > controler. /hdb is the second or slave drive on the first IDE
controler.
> > > /hdc is primary drive on the second IDE controler, /hdd would be the
slave
> > > drive on the second controler. See the pattern? The same pattern would
> > > hold for SCSI drives however, I'm not sure if you would be limitted to
two
> > > drives per SCSI controler. I don't have any SCSI hard drives here so
not
> > > very familiar with SCSI protocols.
> > >
> > > The number corresponds to partitions on the current drive, hence /hda1
> > > points to the first logical partition and /hda2 is the second and so
> > > forth. Most linux systems would have a minimum of two partitions - one
for
> > > swap and one for the main file system. Since your 80gig hard drive is
so
> > > big, you might want to create several partitions but I'll leave that
> > > discussion for another thread.
> > >
> > > I hope this makes some sense to you.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> > >
> > > > also,
> > > > how can I figure out what to assign to my drives?
> > > > I have an 80gb harddrive.
> > > > I have a r/w CD ROM, DVD, zip disk, and a removable harddrive bay.
I think
> > > > the removable drive is on an IDE controller card.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV
> > > > Northeast Nebraska
> > > > gervin at kdsi.net
> > > > or My Work e-mail:
> > > > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> > > >
> > > >
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