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>20. Removable drives</H1
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> All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported,
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including optical (MO), WORM, floptical, Bernoulli, Zip, Jaz,
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SyQuest, PD, and others.
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> Panasonic MO (combines a CD-ROM drive and an optical
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removable disk). You have to set a switch when configuring
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the kernel to get both part work at the same time.
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> Parallel port Zip drives
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TARGET="_top"
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> here</A
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> Parallel port Avatar Shark-250
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HREF="http://www.torque.net/parport/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> here</A
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> Removable drives work like hard disks and floppies, just
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>fdisk</TT
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>mkfs</TT
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and mount the disks. Linux provides drive locking if your drives
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support it.
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>mtools</TT
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can also be used if the disks are in MS-DOS format.
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> CD-R drives require special software to work. Read the CD-R Mini-HOWTO.
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> Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks. Starting
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with kernel 2.1.32 Linux also supports 2048 bytes/sector. A
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patch to kernel 2.0.30 is available at
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HREF="http://liniere.gen.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2048.html"
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> here</A
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> The 2048 bytes/sector support is needed for
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> Fujitsu magneto-optical disk drives M2513
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> Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3 IDE/ATAPI internal Zip drives,
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flopticals and PD's are supported.
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> LS-120 floptical
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> PD-CD
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