You can send a zip file in Gmail if you want to send a large file or folder to someone without using Google Drive. Gmail has a hard 25 MB limit for sending attachments over email, and if you try. After the above steps the Zip drive appeared in file explorer as a normal USB storage device. My thoughts are that the Zip drive itself was powering down to an inaccessible hibernation mode after initialisation but with caching switched on the zip disk and its files become available in this mode. If the ZIP drive was not connected and powered on at the time, you'll get the message 'initmodule: Device or resource busy', and the module won't load. (By the way, it looks like you don't need to switch your PC off to connect the ZIP - just make sure the module is not loaded and the drive is turned off, then plug it in, turn the drive on.
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There are at least five or six versions of the Iomega ZIP 100 drive.The Iomega page for these drives is athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/They all acceptspecial cartridges resembling a 3.5' floppy disk that hold 100megabytes of data. The disks actually hold 96 cylinders of 2048sectors each holding 512 bytes. This would normally be called 96Megabytes.
The external drive comes in these types:
- Parallel port
- SCSI
- Plus
The internal drive comes in these types:
- SCSI
- IDE
- ATAPI
The internal versions can be mounted in 3.5 or 5.25 drive slots.The external versions are in a small blue plastic case enclosure,powered by an external wall brick.
All the drives have a large pushbutton on the front of the drive.This is used to eject the disk. Linux locks the door while using thedrive, but if the button is pressed while the door is locked, the ZIPdrive will remember and eject the disk as soon as the software unlocksit.
4.1 Parallel port version Zip100
This drive is described athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zippp.html
The Linux driver comes in a couple of different versions. The 0.26version of the ppa.c program ships standard with the 2.0.x kernels.If your kernel is older than 2.0.35 then you have the OLDprogram.Check out
David Campbell's pagefor the more current version of this program. At the time of thiswriting the current version is 1.42. Subtitle studio 1 5 17.
The auto configuration features of the 1.4x program are very nice. You do NOT have to tell the progam what the base address of the parallelport is. The program will prob the standard address's for the parallel ports and attach the drive when it finds it.
The most common problem is to load the lp printer module before the ppa program.The ppa program must be loaded before the lp module. The lp module will tieup the port that the zip drive needs, this is why the ppa progam must be loadedfirst.
Also be sure that all cables are firmly attached.
If you did everything right :) you will see messages like this at boot time.
You can view these messages with dmesg | more.You can save the messages to a file with dmesg > dmesg.txt.This is often usefull if you are trying to debug the installation.
Also see section Getting more information Hearts of iron 4 white peace.
4.2 SCSI external version
This drive is described athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zipscsi.html
The external SCSI version of the ZIP drive has two DB25F connectors,and two configuration switches. One switch selects the drive's targetaddress. The choice is limited to target 5 or 6. The other enables aninternal terminator, in case the drive is the last one on a chain.The 25 pin SCSI connectors use the familiar Macintosh style wiring.The drive is shipped with a Macintosh type cable, but standard cablesand converters are easily obtained if you are using a host adapterwith a Centronics or high-density connector.
I have not seen an internal SCSI drive, but I would expect it to havea standard 50 pin DIP header SCSI connector and the same two switches.
Mac screenshot to clipboard. Make sure that the target address you choose does not conflict withany other SCSI devices you may have on the same bus. Also be surethat the physically last drive in a chain has termination enabled, oran external terminator installed.
If you have an internal SCSI disk or CD-rom, and you connect your ZIPdrive to the existing adapter, you should check to see if there areany terminators on the card that must be removed. Only the twoextreme ends of the SCSI bus should be terminated. If your bus ispartly internal and partly external, there should be one terminator onthe last external device and one on the last internal device, but noterminators on the adapter card itself.
How to open ios simulator. Be sure that all cables are firmly attached.
The kernel configuration is much the same as the internel version. See thenext section SCSI Internal version for an example configuration.
The ZIP ZOOM host adapter
Iomega markets a SCSI host adapter under the name ZIP Zoom. This isactually based on the design of the Adaptec AHA1520 family ofadapters. It has an external Macintosh type DB25F connector,compatible with the cable that comes with the ZIP drive.
Linux supports this adapter with the aha152x driver.
4.3 The SCSI Internal version
Install hardware as described in the 'Installation and Reference Guide'noting which SCSI ID, IRQ and I/O Port Address are being used. (You'll needthis info later.) Things will go smother if the drive and adapter card usedifferent SCSI ID's.
Beware The zip zoom card is hardwired for scsi ID number 7. The scsiid in the command line below is for the card, not the drive. The card and thedrive must use different scsi id numbers. For example if the card uses 7 thenuse 5 or some other number for the drive.
Recompile the kernel after configuring it to include 'SCSI', 'SCSI disk'and 'AHA152X/2825' support. INSTALL NEW KERNEL :-(
Determine what your kernel command line is:
aha152x=[I/O Port][,IRQ][,SCSI ID][,RECONNECT][,PARITY]
For example :
aha152x=0x140,10,7,1
If your using LILO add your kernel command line to your lilo.conf fileusing the append command.
(ie. append = 'aha152x=0x140,10,7,1')
If your using LOADLIN add your kernel command line to the command you use toinitiate loadlin.
4.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver
This drive is described athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zipplus.html
This is a newer version of the external Zip drive. The Zip Plus does not use the ppa driver, instead it uses the imm driver. Philippe Anderssonsent in this excellent section on the imm driver for the Zip Plus.Thanks Philippe.
First, rebuild your kernel to include the following items:
- modules support
- SCSI support
- SCSI Disk support
- lp as a module (if you need it)
You'll notice we didn't select any SCSI low-level driver. That's ok --we'll build it separately later.
Then, you need to get the driver source code from Dave Campbell's homepage (http://www.torque.net/~campbell/imm.tar.gz). Version 0.18 isthe current one at the time of writing (Aug. 98). Unzip it and untarit somewhere (under /usr/src, for instance). Then just runmake. You'll get the module you need (imm.o). Copyit to .
If your lp module was loaded (check with lsmod(1)), unload it(rmmod lp), then load imm.o (insmod imm)and you're all set basically.
If the ZIP drive was not connected and powered on at the time, you'llget the message 'init_module: Device or resource busy', and the modulewon't load. (By the way, it looks like you don't need to switch yourPC off to connect the ZIP -- just make sure the module is not loadedand the drive is turned off, then plug it in, turn the drive on, andload the module.)
If the ZIP was connected and powered on, but there was no disk in, themodule will load all right, but you'll get the message that it can'tread the disk partition table. This is ok, as the partition table willbe automatically read when you insert a ZIP disk.
If there was a ZIP disk in, you'll get the full information displayed,including a list of partitions defined on the disk and its WriteProtect status. Here is a sample load-time message:
One last remark to mention that this version of the driver also locksthe drive door while the disk is mounted. If the eject button ispressed in this situation, nothing happens, but the drive 'remembers'and ejects the disk as soon as it is dismounted.
4.5 ATAPI version
This drive is described athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zipatapi.html
There was an IDE version of the drive produced for a while.I think that for the most part this has been replaced by the ATAPI version.
Donald Stidwell sent in these comments on the ATAPI version. Thanks Don.
I use an ATAPI Zip drive and it works with both 2.0.32 and 2.0.33kernels. I've used it under both RH 5.0 and OpenLinux 1.2 (my currentused distribution). To get it to work under OpenLinux, I just enabledATAPI floppy support in the kernel. OpenLinux does not have thissupport compiled in by default.
No other drivers are needed. It will mount as an extended partition onpartition 4. I.E, mine mounts on HDB4. I mount it under /mnt/zip asnoauto, although I don't suppose there would be any real problem withautomounting. I just wonder about ejecting disks. I always dismountthe drive before ejecting a cartridge.
There are more detailed instructions for the ATAPI install in the LinuxGazette May 1998 issue. See the 2 cent tip section.
4.6 IDE version
I have not used the IDE version. Eric Backus sent in these comments.Thanks Eric.
I have one of these. It came with my Gateway 2000 computer a year ago. I think most of these were shipped by large OEM companies like this,before the ATAPI version of the ZIP drive was available.
I use an ATAPI Zip drive and it works with both 2.0.32 and 2.0.33kernels. I've used it under both RH 5.0 and OpenLinux 1.2 (my currentused distribution). To get it to work under OpenLinux, I just enabledATAPI floppy support in the kernel. OpenLinux does not have thissupport compiled in by default.
No other drivers are needed. It will mount as an extended partition onpartition 4. I.E, mine mounts on HDB4. I mount it under /mnt/zip asnoauto, although I don't suppose there would be any real problem withautomounting. I just wonder about ejecting disks. I always dismountthe drive before ejecting a cartridge.
There are more detailed instructions for the ATAPI install in the LinuxGazette May 1998 issue. See the 2 cent tip section.
4.6 IDE version
I have not used the IDE version. Eric Backus sent in these comments.Thanks Eric.
I have one of these. It came with my Gateway 2000 computer a year ago. I think most of these were shipped by large OEM companies like this,before the ATAPI version of the ZIP drive was available.
The good news about this drive: no kernel modules or modifications areneeded to support it. It looks to the kernel like an IDE hard drive. It worked for me with no effort with kernel 2.0.31 and 2.0.32.
The bad news about this drive: because it doesn't use ATAPI, you can'tuse the SCSI-to-ATAPI translation, which means you can't use mtools towrite-protect disks (or to eject them, for that matter).
4.7 USB version
This drive is described athttp://www.iomega.com/product/zip/imac.html
These drives look very cool and the USB interface also looks good. The only problem is that the USB interface for Linux is still underdevelopment at this time. So for now, this drive is not usableunder Linux. Check this address for updates.
4.8 ZIP250 version
This drive is desribed at http://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zip250.html
https://cetm.over-blog.com/2021/01/samsung-galaxy-pictures-to-mac.html. This drive is new as of January 1999. I just bought one of these and it worksvery well in Linux. Just use the IMM driver fromhttp://www.torque.net/~campbell/imm.tar.gzSet up the driver the same way as the zip plus. Mainly just download the driver, unpack it, and run make. Then copy the imm.o executable to the modulesdirectory. For example /lib/modules/2.0.35/scsi (The 2.0.35 is yourkernel version). If you are not sure of the version do uname -r.
NextPreviousContentsAn archive is a file containing one or more files along with their data. You use archives in Windows 10 to copy multiple files into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress files to use less storage space.
Archives are also useful when you want to send multiple files to someone by email. Instead of attaching several large files, archive them into one file. That file takes less space than sending all the files separately, and it's easier to attach and send by email.
Zip Drive How To Use
The most popular format for archiving files is .zip and Windows 10 can automatically work with this type of archive without having to install third-party apps. To archive several files and folders into a .zip file, open File Explorer and follow these steps:
How To Create A Zip Drive File
Select the files and folders that you want to archive.
Click the Share tab on the Ribbon.
The Share tab is displayed.
In the Send section, click the Zip button.
An archive is automatically created in the same folder as the files and folders that you selected. You can edit the name of the archive.
Type the name that you want for the archive file.
Press Enter or click somewhere else in the File Explorer window.
You can now use the newly created .zip archive and send it by email or store it where you want on your computer.
How To Create A Zip Drive Mac
If you want to save space on your hard disk, it's a good idea to delete the files and folders that you placed in an archive, as you can always extract them from the archive.
