[wplug] Linux drive designation

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:04, RJNedreski at wmconnect.com wrote:
> Although I've been using computers since 1962 (time-shared mainframe)
> I'm a newbie to Linux.  I have a PC w/ 200MHz Pentium,190MB RAM, 15GB
> hard drive, IDE Zip drive and IDE CDROM.  Installed Zipslack on Zip
> drive but can't access it. Zip drive is secondary master.  What is
> its designation in  Linux?   hdc1, or what?  Will appeciate info.

Yes, secondary master IDE is /dev/hdc. Use the command
$ dmesg | less    
to see to what device your Zip drive is attached.

http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=zipslack#8
says that your Zip drive could be treated as a SCSI device (in which 
case it would be /dev/sda)

-A

PS: If you're generally looking into bootable GNU/Linux systems, KNOPPIX 
is a must! :-)
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