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Everyone who often moves data and does not want to burn a CD
every time cannot live without them: the small helper, the Zip disk.
Even under Linux Zip works and you easily evade the small zones of problems with this article.
Enter a Zip disk and reboot the kernel. During booting the kernel you
should see a text similar to the following one:
Now you are able to mount the Zip drive. It is recommended to create a destination directory first: >> mkdir /mnt/zip and then mount the drive with: >> mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip/dev/sda is the SCSI device which is used to communicate with the drive. If you have already used internal SCSI drives you may use /dev/sdb4 or sdc4 instead. You find the correct device name in the last line of the file /var/log/boot.msg (see above: sda: sda4) Now you are able to use the Zip drive as similar as a normal hard disk. It is also possible to format the Zip disk in the ext2 format. >> fdisk /dev/sda
Of course you recognized that the Zip drive and the printer are connected
with the same port. They both use the parallel port and that's the reason
why you should use "Parallelport-sharing". But this feature has not been
supported by Linux yet. You are just able to use the Zip drive or the printer
but not both. The nicest possibility to solve this problem is a modular
kernel. If you want to print you load the module for lp if you want to
use the Zip drive you unload the lp module and load the Zip module instead.
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