[ILUG] zip drives...

[Caolan McNamara]

On 03-Nov-99 kevin lyda wrote:
>ok, to get a zip drive going i do the following on a redhat 6.1 box:
>
>insmod parport
>insmod parport_pc
>insmod ppa
>mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos
>
>to put it mildly, that bites.  how can i just do the latter?  what do i
>tell /etc/conf.modules to load those three modules when /dev/sda* gets
>accessed?

Just for the record, while sda4 is *usually* the actual partition with 
the data on it, there are situations when it is sda1 instead. This (I
believe) is something to do with using password or write protection (or 
sommat) on the zip. Something like "if you ever you x protection on
the zip, then partition 1 is from now on is the data one". Or maybe its if
you reformat the damn thing under windows. I never tracked down the
actual reason, but nonetheless I have had a few zips handed to me with
sda1 as the correct partition. Anyone know the actual reason for this? I
did read that the reason that sda4 is the partition in the usual case is 
because of whatever way macintoshes want their disk's laid out, and that
the mac jaz's are the same way.

C.

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