satelliteuser083 Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 I've been given a Zip250 drive (model Z250USBPCM), which I'd like to attach to my Mva2006 box. There is a USB and a parallel connector on the drive. When I connected it via the USB, 2006 tried to configure it but failed; I've since read that "Iomega does not support using USB drives in Linux". Has anyone out there any experience with this drive, and, in particular, does it ONLY work via the parallel-interface? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 I still have one lying around, but haven't used it for about five years :P Use the parallel cable - it works perfectly. I'm not sure how you'd get it working over USB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 I used an old Zip100 with the parallel port (it didn't have a USB option), and it worked fine with both Mandriva and Knoppix. Haven't tried a Zip250 or USB, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted November 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 Whoops, have been wasting everyone's time Many apologies!!! The other interface is NOT parallel, it's PCMCIA. Has anyone any experience with this on a Zip-drive (for example, what type of drive does mva recognise it as, etc)? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 7, 2007 Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 Try this Knoppix-related guide, it worked for me trying out the 100MB parallel version: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Knowing_Knopp...omega_Zip_drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Well, the problem is solved. I bought a PCMCIA-cable for the drive, uncoupled the parallel-interfaced ZIP-100 drive (mandy gets confused if BOTH are connected), plugged in the ZIP-250, rebooted and... ... it worked. No mods to fstat or anything else. Magnificent . That's computing for you!! Many thanks for all your help :) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 I'd just like to add something which is rather curious here. I have two zip-250 disks, which were origionally formatted for Mac and have now been formatted for PC (by Windoze). Windoze reads from and writes to these correctly but mandy refuses to mount either :unsure: . Using another zip-250 disk (origionally formatted for PC) everything works correctly under mandy (and Windoze). It would appear that there is some (physical??) formatting on the disks that windoze ignores but mandy doesn't. Has anyone any tips on how to overcome this problem? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Try installing "dosfstools" if they aren't installed already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Well, Control Centre tells me that dosfstools-2.10-2mdk is installed but I cannot run it, neither as user nor as root. I also cannot find it on the partition using Konqueror (in case a path is necessary). Could you help me out again? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 The dosfstools package contains (basically) two utilities, namely dosfsck (which you should use to check your zip floppies) and mkdosfs (which you can use to reformat them, if something looks wrong with them). For usage details, simply open konqueror and type in man:dosfsck and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 (edited) dosfsck told me that 'Cluster size is zero'; somewhat strange :unsure: . Anyway, mkdosfs created a filesystem, as expected; GREAT linux software.. Many thanks. Edited December 8, 2007 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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