NOT tested on IDE Jaz drive

Jaz drives are SCSI, even when connected to the parallel port. Therefore, your kernel must have support for the correct SCSI card either compiled into the kernel, or compiled as a module.

There is a truly excellent GUI for handling Jaz/Zip drives. You can download it at www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip/^*. Note that it needs XForms (available from world.std.com/~xforms/^*) installed.

1. Extract the JaZip program
• tar zxvf jaZip-x.x.src.tar.gz
2. Append "-I/usr/X11R6/include" to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile
3. Compile and install the program
• make
• make install
4. Create a mount-point for the device
• mkdir -p /mnt/jaz
5. Edit /etc/jazip.conf so it looks something like
• /dev/sda4 /mnt/jaz auto auto 0 0
• adjust sda to the correct device for your system
6. Load the gui tool
• jazip &
• this will auto-mount the first entry in /etc/jazip.conf

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