[PLUG] HPFS

[Terry Griffin]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 8:26 pm, Marv wrote:
> HI
>
> How do I get HPFS <High Performance File System>
> zip disks to work?
>
>

Something like:

    mount -t hpfs /dev/whatever /mnt/zip

Of course you have to have the right device driver loaded first, and
directory /mnt/zip must already exist.  And your kernel had to have
been built with HPFS support enabled.

I remember there being two drivers for parallel-port zip drives, ppa and
something else depending on the generation of the product. For IDE zip
drives you need the ide-floppy module. For USB you just need USB
mass storage. The USB driver should auto-load when you plug in the
device. For the other drivers you may have to manually load them with
the "modprobe" utility.

For parallel port and USB your device node will be a SCSI device. If
it happend to be the first SCSI device then the command would be:

    mount -t hpfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip

For the IDE floppy driver your device node would be an IDE node. If
it happened to be the third IDE device then the command would be:

    mount -t hpfs /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip

Normally zip drives have a single partition #4. That's why sda4
or hdc4.

Terry