Recognizing Drives

[Joseph]

Neil wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Joseph <ubuntu at e-pops.org> wrote:
>> Robert Perry wrote:
>>  > I have an old machine running Ubuntu 6.06 with an internal SCSI ZIP
>>  > drive and it works perfectly.  I also am running Ubuntu 7.04 on my main
>>  > new machine with an external SCSI ZIP drive and it also works perfectly.
>>  > What kind of interface did you use on the Windows machine?  Could your
>>  > drive be a parallel interface?  I have not tried one of those on a Linux
>>  > computer.
>>  > Bob
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Joseph wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> I have an Iomega Zip Plus drive whiich worked well on a windows XP
>>  >> system.  My Ubuntu doesn't seem to want to "see" or recognize it.
>>  >>
>>  >> Is it possible for me to get Ubuntu to recognize my Zip Drive???
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> Joseph Snurr
>>  >> http://e-pops.org/aeamt/GT/607.lhtm
>>  >>
>>
>>
>>  Interface?  I just hooked it up, booted the computer, XP found the new hardware and installed the
>>  drivers....   then it was recognized and usable.  That's the only thing I have with Ubuntu....   all
>>  the codes...   After about 15 years of being online, I'm still trying to get used to HTML....   <grin>
>>
>>  Joseph
> 
> Most things can be fixed using a GUI (Graphical User Interface,
> clickable). However, some less used things (like the ZIP dive) do not
> have a good GUI tool. This has to be fixed using command line.
> There are some great tutorials out there, that can really help when
> fixing these things. Sadly there are also a lot of tutorials that
> assume you already know about command line Linuxing, and cannot help
> you when you don't. In that case, there is this mailing list.
> 
> I do like the command line interface, for the speed it gives. Unrar a
> large load of .rar files? Simply write the appropriate line and let
> the PC do it's work.
> The beauty of Linux is that it offers both. When you start you will
> need to use the GUI's because you can't be expected to be able to use
> command line.
> Once you have everything running you might find some things are easier
> and faster in command line (not all users feel that way, mind you) and
> start using it. Then you might learn Regular Expressions and really
> learn to love and hate text based input.
> And last but not least: The next step would be to start scripting. You
> can enter a command line command into a txt file and make it
> executable in such a way you can simply start the file and execute the
> commands you like. This can be automated (cron jobs, executed at boor,
> executed at shutdown) and your PC will do maintenance tasks at the
> moment you'd like it to.
> That would be the first and easy step towards real programming.
> 
> Neil
> 
> 



If I understand you correctly, this means I must do some intense studies on scripting for linux. 
And that's great, because though it uses time....   I will learn more about a good system....   and 
learning is always good.

Thanks for your help.

Joseph