On 25/12/2019 16:45, Jos Boersema wrote:
> I tried putting an Iomega zip drive with USB 3 on the Pi as the root
> file system, but unfortunately I didn't get it to work. It hangs on
> boot "... waiting for root device PARTUUID=....".

A Zip drive, from some sort of 1990's timewarp perhaps?

It will be far too slow to use as storage for Raspberry Pi, it's maybe
1000s times slower than the worse SD card you might find in a cheap
Christmas cracker. You wont be able to boot from it, as the kernel wont
wait a couple of microfortnights for it to eventually start dribbling data.

> This Iomega zip drive seems to take a bit of power. When I plugged it
> in the X-server crashed, which seems strange so maybe it was some kind
> of power dip. Plugging it in while the Pi is not on gives no problems.

I would not plug it directly in to a Raspberry Pi, the motor in it is
like something out of a washing machine of the same era!

---druck

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