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In article <4fr0jh$dh5@sun1.awam.com.au>,
	peterl@awam.com.au (Peter Lee (Student Employee)) writes:
>G'day,
>
>Can anyone tell me if Iomega's Zip Drive can be run under Linux? Is there a
>driver for it or is this an impossibility?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter
>
>

Both the SCSI version and the parallel port version work under Linux.

The SCSI version mounts like any other SCSI device.

The parallel port version can be run in two ways - using DOSEMU and the
GUEST.EXE program (which restricts you to DOS filesystems), or using 
the unofficial ppa driver which allows you to access the Zip drive as
a normal drive under Linux (disks can be formatted as ext2fs systems, etc)

The ppa.c driver is still in beta (but seems flawless), and was written
by grant@torque.net. It is available via FTP from 
ftp://gear.torque.net/pub/ppa.c.
To run it, you need a recent kernel (1.2.13, for example) and the module
tools.

Cheers
Graeme

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