About a week ago, I've asked if it was possible to
use Iomega Zip drives on AlphaStations. I've received two answers,
which I'll summarize as follows:
- We are only considering the SCSI version of the Zip drive
- the Zip drive can be used as a tar device for backup/exchange
- a disklabel can be put on the disk, but involves some trics
(see below)
- no one seems to have been able to use the mtools with the
zip drive and Dec Unix.
I've looked on the Linux mailing lists and newsgroups. The newest
version of the mtools seems to support the Zip drives, but Dec Unix is
not listed in the list of OSes on which this faciliy has been tested.
The newest mtools can be found at:
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/mtools-3.4.tar.gz
I haven't tried any of the above, as we've decided to give the
Zip drive a miss: they're too small for what we want...
Thanks to all of those who have reponded. Here are the responses
I got, almost in full.
> I have a Zip and Jaz drive on my DEC 3000/500. Placing a disklabel on
> the disk is tricky but wrote a utility to do this. You can get it at
> ftp://ftp.eece.maine.edu/pub/src/alpha/util/ZIP_disklabel_1.0.tar.gz. I
> even have an emergency bootable zip disk (single user mode though). I
> also do not recomend a Jaz drive -- I'd spend the $500 on 3 Zip's with
> piles of disks if I had to do it over.
>
> Andy.
> --
> Andy Sheaff - sheaff_at_eece.maine.edu
> http://www.eece.maine.edu/Faculty/Sheaff.html
and
> We have a ZIP drive as you describe connected to our AlphaStation 400 and it is
> is working well. We are able to use it as a tar backup device, we have
> also managed to label it and mount it as a Unix File System. All is
> working well. We have also managed to do these same things with a
> JAZ drive.
>
> We have not, however, been able to get mtools to recognize it. I don't know
> what would be involved in accomplishing this but would definitely be interested
> in any responses you get from anyone haveing accomplished this.
>
> Dick Abraham <abrahad_at_govonca.gov.on.ca>
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