Booting Linux from an internal IDE Zip disk?

[E Frank Ball]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:46:55PM -0800, Dustin Mollo wrote:
} 
} I've never played with IDE Zip drives, and the machine here at work didn't
} ship with one, so I can't reproduce his environment.  Anyone out there have
} a setup with an IDE Zip drive in it that could maybe shed some more light on
} how the drive appears in Linux?

zouave:/dev 48% ll zip
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Jan 15  2001 zip -> /dev/hdb4

penguin:/dev 167% ll zip
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Feb 27  2001 zip -> hdc4

frizzen:/dev 45% ll zip
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul 15  2000 zip -> sda4

The first two are internal ATAPI, the last is internal SCSI.

In my first example an internal ATAPI drive is a slave on the primary
IDE controller and shows up as drive "B".  Shouldn't it be possible to
boot from this device?  (I haven't tried and I'm not going to for a
number of reasons).

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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com