(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) System Configuration : (Category) Disks :
Can I use a Jaz or Zip drive on my linux box?
Yep. Just partition the disk with a modern-enough version of one of
the partitioning programs listed in a question elsewhere in this section
Then mkfs -t e2fs /dev/sdxx (with the right device and partition info),
and mount /dev/sdxx /mnt.
 
You can figure out the device number by looking at the boot messages
(try "dmesg"), and you can figure out the partition number with
disklabel or pdisk.
 
jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu
 
I partitioned a jaz disk with silverlining v5.6.4/26 and everything works hunky dory.
gbakay@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
 
I formatted my jaz, with pdisk. It's a little hard to use, but if you
gotta run Linux, it works. One caveat: you can't preserve your HFS
partition, so you can't have a MacOS partion.
rosser@msw0.attnet.or.jp

I used Anubis Utility and created 3 A/UX partitions, and 1 HFS (MacOS) partition on a jaz. 
It Boots fine, and the speed is normal.  I was actually wondering if I could mount an HFS Zip disk
under Linux.  any thoughts?
<miller@brick.purchase.edu
jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu, gbakay@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca, rosser@msw0.attnet.or.jp, miller@brick.purchase.edu
I was able to mount my Zip drive with the following:

> hmount /dev/sdc4

- from root
- my Zip drive was is the third SCSI device 
  (at ID#4, remember that the CDROM is not part of the sdxx device drivers)
- formatted with iomega tools 
  (which I suppose makes three driver partitions and the forth is the main one)
slab@pobox.com
For me, on Powerbook G3 (linuxppc 2000), the thing that worked was - 
1. create and write partition using pdisk,
2. format partition for linux by -> /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc 
        where hdc is my zip drive, right bay (the left bay would be hde). Now, 
zip drive can be mounted using mount /dev/hdc command. 
Bhagwati.
bpgupta@its.caltech.edu
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