Hello...I have a ZIP (Iomega) 250 external USB drive. I would like to be able to use it on my laptop. I am running KNOPPIX 3.7. I read somewhere in the forum of someone who had an identical drive, hooked it up, booted his computer and the drive and icon was there on desktop and worked. No such luck in my case!

I can create new device right clicking desktop. There is a list of choices of devices and the last one is a "zip device".
When I choose it, the next screen comes up and under the "Device" tab, other than the stock choices, like for HD, cdrom, floppy, there is nothing for Zip Device. Just something called "usbdevfs (proc/bus/usb)".
That seems to be the only thing to pick. Then after that, there is a zip icon,with the little green arrow showing its 'mounted'. I noticed its mount point is "/proc/dev/usb".....So if I click on the icon, it just takes me to that folder reference /proc/dev/usb so the drive is not really mounted, just a folder opens.

I noticed on the Iomega site there is software for linux. Anyone with experience installing this type of drive under KNOPPIX? Please help....bob