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>Reading Iomega 250Mb Zip Cartridges/Media in Linux Mandrake 7.2</H3>
<p><strong>From jed hypes
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Jim Dennis, Mike Orr
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I m new to linix 7.2. I needed a change
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please help me
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> [Mike]
Have you looked through the Mandrake documentation and the Linux HOWTOs
at <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org"
>http://www.linuxdoc.org</A> ? What have you tried to do and what failed?
We are more likely to answer your question if you show you've put some
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More to the point, did you search Google!Linux (<A HREF="http://www.google.com/linux"
>http://www.google.com/linux</A> )?
I tried the terms: "read mount iomega 250 zip" and the first
link lead me to the:
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Linux.com :: Learn :: HOWTOs - Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO
<DD><A HREF="http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/ZIP-Drive.html"
>http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/ZIP-Drive.html</A>
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... which might answer your question. BTW (by the way) it's a
good idea to re-iterate your question in the body of your e-mail,
since some mail-user agents (clients) truncate the subject line,
and others just put subject and other header lines in the periphery
of the screen, or on completely separate windows, screens, etc.
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Of course I cheated a little bit. I included the term "mount"
(which is how we usually read from, write to, and other manipulate
filesystems under UNIX and Linux, by "mounting" them unto a directory
under our filesystem) and the company name of the Zip Drive's
manufacturer "Iomega" --- so my search might be more effective than
one which didn't include these bits of metadata. On the other hand
searching Google! with just "read 250 zip" yielded similar results,
but the link I gave was moved to second place. With the additional
terms it was the topmost item. If I go to regular Google (rather than
Google!Linux) and I use the less specific search term (excluding the
term Linux) then I get a bunch of irrelevant results. (But including
"linux" in the search term at the top level, generic Google! gets
the same results as going to Google!Linux).
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Of course there are other search engines, and there are many other
results returned by these queries. So any of them might answer
your question. However, if everyone used these techniques effectively,
then the answer gang would only get "hard" questions.
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To the original querent: I hope that mini-HOWTO guides to you to a
simple solution.
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