Aip Drive and Linux please bear with me!

[Janina Sajka]

Amanda:

For the latest authoratative answers, go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation 
and do a:

grep -ir "zip drive" *


On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:

> Okay, then what would I compile into the kernel and o'well guess will be
> baptism by fire! ha!  Maybe I had better stay up a few nights with the modem
> hahahha!
> 
> I would like to use it though guess some of you are saying ... why.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Amanda Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: "Speakup at Braille.Uwo.Ca" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Aip Drive and Linux please bear with me!
> 
> 
> Amanda:
> 
> The fact that you want to use a zip drive is a mattor of support being
> compiled in your kernel for that device. To mount you should specify the
> filesystem, source device and mount point.
> 
> I don't have a zip drive, but I do have an orb---somewhat similar. My orb
> is a scsi device and gets /dev/sda5 as it's the only scsi drive on my
> portable. At the office I have a scsi hard disk and a scsi orb, so my orb
> at the office becomes /dev/sdb5. The mount point, of course, is whatever
> directory you want the filesystem from that media to show up in. So, I
> have /mnt/orb for that.
> 
> Thus, if my orb is formatted with the linux ext2 filesystem, I might say:
> 
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/orb
> Or, if it's FAT32 (for some silly reason), at the office I would say:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /mnt/orb
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org