All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported.
Optical (MO), WORM, floptical, Bernoulli, Zip, SyQuest, and PD drives work like
floppies, just fdisk/format and mount the disks. Linux provides drive locking
if your drives support it. mtools can also be used if the disks are in
MS-DOS format.
CD-R drives require special software to work. Read the CD-R Mini-HOWTO.
Apparently, parallel port Zip drives work with Linux under DOSEMU, read the Iomega Zip drive Mini-HOWTO for details.
Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks.
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