zip drive

[Roy Nickelson]

hi Greg,
well you were right it is hdd on my system as well. i guess I didn't read
enough to know that the other one was for parellel devices only.
but now when I try this command
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /zip
I get the following error message

FAT: bogus logical sector size 8293
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:40.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
       or too many mounted file systems
[

I was able to mount the flopppy drive with the abouve command successfully
so I am not sure if there is something wrong with my zipdisk or if there is
still something I don't know.  Actually my disk is fine i use it under
windows.
Roy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: zip drive


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Then why are you using /dev/sda4 to access the drive? Those are only
for parallel port drives.

First, you need to find out what your machine is seeing the zip drive
as. Type

dmesg |more

and look through the output for your zip drive. Mine looks like the
following:

hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive

In this case, my zip drive is accessed as /dev/hdd. So, if I have a
mount point called /mnt/zip, I would do:

mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip

to mount the drive.

Greg


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:16:40PM -0400, Roy Nickelson wrote:
> hi,
> it is internal it is an ide drive.
> Roy
>

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