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Re: [MLUG] iomega atapi zip 100
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ah. maybe try creating a user rule in udev for the zip drive?

On 5/12/05, nowlind <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Thanks for the link Shawn.  I have an entry in the fstab that works when
> the block dev in /dev is created.  This block dev just is not being
> created by udev.  I think it is a sysfs error because sysfs feeds udev.
> 
> Shawn Parker wrote:
> > maybe?
> >
> > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ZIP-Drive.html#ss6.4
> >
> > On 5/12/05, Pottinger, Hardy J. <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> >>>Why?  Do zip disks tend to fail when the HDD fails?
> >>
> >>Nope. They just tend to fail. :-\
> >>
> >>That, and failed disks have been known to foul a whole a drive.
> >>
> >>I'd feel a lot more comfortable with either CDR, tape, or hard drive...
> >>or a combination of the three. But if you're limited by resources,
> >>there's not much you can do.
> >>
> >>Me, I've never tried to get a zip drive to work with Linux, so I'm no
> >>use to Dan.
> >>
> >>In the future, I'll try to remember that Dan only wants direct answers.
> >>;-)
> >>
> >>--Hardy
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