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Re: IOMEGA ZIP
shapira chen wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Pablo Sandler wrote:
>
> > Hello, Linux users,
> > Has anyone tried the ZIP IOMEGA drive for 100Mb disks, under Linux.
> > Is it reliable as backup device using tar & ftape?.
> > Can a linux file system such as ext2 be created on such disks, so allowing
> > to be mounted to system?
> > thanks forany coments,
> >
>
> yeah, it works all right (at least on the scsi version - i never tried it
> with the parallel zip drive - but it should be the same)
> You can even install linux ON the zip drive and it works great!
>
> Chen.
> i think there should be quite a difference. i used the parallel
version on dos/win and it requires a special software (actually driver)
in order to be recognized by the computer. i guess the SCSI version does
not. have you checked with iomega?
flog me if i'm wrong.
Eran.
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