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Re: IOMEGA ZIP



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.
 
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