[olug] mounting my zip drive

[Brian Roberson]

on pre-formated zip disks, the format is fat16, on partition 4, eg. try
"mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip"

if you intend on using the zip under dos/win as well, you will need to leave
that format alone, and linux complains about the partition sizes if I
remember correctly, if you are only using it under linux, repartition it and
make a new filesytem on it ( fdisk /dev/hdc && make it the way you want it ;
mke2fs /dev/hd{partition#} )





----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent" <vraffensberger at home.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] mounting my zip drive


> Are you able to partition or format it?  Try   cfdisk /dev/hdc  and see
> what it tells you about it.
> The disk may be pre formatted for dos.  Is so, try mount -t vfat
> /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
>
> mesc wrote:
> >
> > After reinstalling linux (not related to not being able to my zip
> > drive)I read the url that jason replied to me and tried what it
> > suggested but no luck yet.If it helps here's what I get when I run the
> > mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip command with the scsi modules loaded (for scsi
> > emulation for my  cd-rw drive>>/dev/hdc: Input/output error
> >                                                               mount: you
must specify the filesystem type......and here's
> > what I get with the scsi modules unloaded>>mount: you must specify the
> > filesystem type......so when I specify the type like so>> mount -t  ext2
> > /dev/hdc /mnt/zip....I get>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> > superblock on /dev/hdc,
> >                                                 or too many mounted file
> > systems
> >
> > This  has me good.Does anyone have a url that might help me?
> >
> >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
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