Mounting Zip drive on FC4?

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I've got an FC4 installation running that I'm about to change over to 
> F7.  I need to get some of the data backed up and the computer has a 
> Zip drive.  The problem is I can't figure out what the device name 
> is.  This is all automatic on F7.  How do I determine the name for 
> the drive?

If it's a parallel port or USB drive, it should show up as a scsi
device (/dev/sdX). If it's a built in IDE drive, as an ide device
(/dev/hdX).

If it's an external drive, shut it down, and plug the cable in to both
the computer and the drive. Open a terminal on the computer. As root,
run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Now turn on the drive. As the drive
comes up, you should see a message indicating the device file the
kernel assigns to the drive.

If it's a parallel port drive, you'll need to insert the appropriate
module, either ppa or (I think) mma. As root, in another window and
with tail still running:

modprobe ppa

If the device is plugged in and on, that should produce a message as
above.

After that, you will need to know the partition number so you can
mount it.

fdisk -l /dev/[h|s]dX

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