[ale] Are IDE ZIP-drives supported under 2.0.33?

[blackgr at glynn.play.org (Glynn Black)]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Linux Idiot wrote:

> John M. Mills wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the responses to my inquiry on IDE ZIP-drive support.  Doesn't
> > sound like it's a problem, except that the data might come out on the 4th
> > partition.  Is that true for a drive formatted and its 'fs' built under
> > Linux, too, or is it strictly a DOS/Win artifact?
> 
> Although the zip floppies are preformatted as /dev/sda4, I have
> re-fdisk/formatted them to /dev/sda1.  Parallel Zip, but I wouldn't
> think that matters.
> 
If I recall correctly, on Red Hat 5.0 and 2.0.32 I simply selected the IDE
floppy option in the kernel configuration and make modules and make
modules_intall took care of the module. I deleted the dos partition, created
linux partition on /dev/hdd1 then created ext2 file system. My cdrom drive
shares my secondary IDE port on /dev/hdc. Beats the hell out of floppy tape.

Glynn Black	blackgr at worldnet.att.net