Topic: Using Zip drive on SME server

[David Sainsbury]

Hi, I'd like to use an internal (IDE) zip drive on the server, but I can't find any info or posts about it. Could anyone help please?

[eric]

Ok, install the drive...take note of which IDE channel and master/slave you use.  I'll assume you're using the Secondary Slave - hdd

Primary Master - hda
Primary Slave - hdb
Secondary Master- hdc
Secondary Slave- hdd

Now...are you using ext2 or ext3?  For the example, I'm going to use ext3...

From the command line, logged in as root try:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdrive

Your zipdrive should now be mounted in the /mnt/zipdrive folder.  You can actually mount the drive anywhere you would like....perhaps make a zip ibay.  Then your mount path would be /home/e-smith/files/ibays/zipdrive

If you would like this drive to auto-mount everytime that you start your server, you need to edit the /etc/fstab

To do this...using whichever text editor you want....add the line:

/dev/hdd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/zipdrive ext3 defaults 1 2

[David Sainsbury]

Thanks Eric. Works like a charm.