Re: [MLUG] iomega atapi zip 100

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If it's a server and has a connection to the outside world, why not 
write a script to targz it and then sendmail it to a gmail account.  
Ya've got two gig backed up.

I've always been of the opinion that a zip backup is no backup at all.  
George has always reinforced this for me.  A lot!

nowlind wrote:

> Let me start off by saying that I am not a noob but far from knowing 
> exactly what I am doing.  I am running Mandrake 10.1 and have an old 
> atapi zip 100 installed on hdc.  The system is running sysfs and udev. 
> Whenever I boot the system it does not create a device block in /dev 
> for the zip drive.  I have tried with and without a disk in.  If I run 
> diskdrake then it sees the drive and I can set a mount point, save, 
> and then mount the drive.  I have an entry in fstab.  If this was a 
> desktop machine then it would not be such a big deal (annoying yes) 
> but this is on a server machine.  I am just wanting to use the drive 
> to setup an auto-backup script of my config files, scripts, and perl 
> automation programs that I write.  I have googled till my head hurts.  
> From what I can tell sysfs is suppose to see the drive and pass the 
> info to udev to create the device block but this is not happening.  I 
> see no info in /sys nor in the udev config for the drive.  BTW it uses 
> the ide-floppy driver.
>
> Dan
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