zip drive

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Roy.
Yes, the zip drives will work with Red Hat 9, but you will need the correct
mount point and a place to mount  your zip in to.
For example:
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
 Also you need the correct kernel modules loaded or else it won't work
correctly.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee at visuallink.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: zip drive


> Hi,
> is the iomega zip 100 accessable under redhat 9?
> I have tried to access it in 2 ways. I have tried mdir b:
>
> and also
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
>
> When I try to mount it I get the error that says
> /dev/sda4 is not a valid device.
>
> I got the mount instructiond from
>
http://www.linux.org/robot/inhttp://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/ZIP-Drive-6
.html
>
> Why is it hat when following instructions in theese howtos they don't work
> in redhat 9.
> Roy
>
>
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