How to I use Zip and Jazz Drives for Solaris Intel?

How to I use Zip and Jazz Drives for Solaris Intel?

Iomega's Zip and Jazz Drives are supported by the Solaris 8 volume manager.
For example, with a ATAPI Zip100 or Zip250 drive,
run "volcheck" and it gets mounted as /rmdisk/zip0
If that doesn't work, see if you can mount it manually
(if DOS formatted). For example: 



# Master on second ATAPI controller:


/usr/sbin/mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0:c /mnt


# Slave on first ATAPI controller:


/usr/sbin/mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:d /mnt





For Solaris 7 and older,
Iomega has instructions on how to install and use them at

http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2019.html
The hardware installation is the same as for MS DOS/Windows systems.
Once installed, use the "mount" command to access the drives.
See the question below on mounting DOS filesystems.


Note that external drives with the parallel port connection are not
supported. This requires a specialized driver.


[Thanks to Chase for the s8 update]



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