Subject: Re: Does IOMEGA 750M Zip drive work on NetBSD?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/17/2002 17:11:16
Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Hello,
> I have bought IOMEGA 750M Zip drive for backup purpose but little hesitant to
> open till I'm sure it works with NetBSD. If it works with NetBSD, in what
> format is the ZIP disks being formatted in? Or, are ZIP disk formats as
> universal as those for CDs, CD9660 format? Thank you in advance.
>
It's a while since I used a Zip drive (one of the original 100Mb
critters), but I used to format it as ext2fs so I could mount it under
Linux or *BSD. So yes, treat it like an ordinary floppy or hard drive
and format it as whatever you want.
Chris
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