On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:21AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I can't mount my syquest ezflyer zip-type drive. The kernel detects it, > but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error that says "wrong fs > type, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems." I trying to > mount it as vfat or msdos. The disk works fine in windows, and it spins > up in Linux, it just won't mount, because it says "Can not find a valid > MSDOS partition."
(Hmm...) Maybe this doesn't apply to your situation -- but I had something very similar occur with one 100 meg disk in a parallel port ZIP drive. In my case, the disk was HPFS-formatted (OS/2), and the drive had been shut down less than gently, with the disk in place. In order to fix the problem, I had to run OS/2's "chkdsk" on it with the /F switch (so chkdsk would fix any problems it found). After I'd done that, linux could mount the disk when told its type was 'hpfs'. -- -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."
