Joey's Internal IDE Zip Drive Guide
Last updated on September 20th, 2002.
I just bought an Internal IDE Zip Drive and thought I would share with you how I got it working. Now I know alot of you have External or SCSI Zip drives, but I am familliar with the Internal IDE one right now.
It's fairly simple, if you have one hard drive and one cdrom, make sure you have the hard drive set as master and the cdrom set as slave. Then attach another ide connector cable to the motherboard and connect it to the zip drive. Make sure the zip drive is set as master.
Once that is done, restart the machine and you will see it being detected by the bios along with your other drives. Boot into Linux and now you must re-build the kernel with support for it. You do this by doing the following as root: (Please note, you might want to read my Kernel Guide if this is your first time compiling a kernel)
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Go into the Block devices section and make sure you have a * next to this item:
<*> Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support
Now if you already have a * there, then skip down to the final section. If not then follow these steps:
Exit menuconfig and choose to save the new kernel, then type:
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.x
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.x
/sbin/lilo
And then reboot. As the new kernel loads you should see something like this:
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
If you see that, then great, everything seems to be working. Now you must create a directory to mount it to, mkdir /zip works nicely. And finally all you have to do is treat it like a floppy drive, when you want to access it, just mount it using mount /dev/hdc4 /zip and the device should show up when you type df. It will probably be similar to this:
/dev/hdc4 95167 46390 43863 51% /zip
If all goes well, this should help you get your IDE Internal Zip Drive working.
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