Hello Alan,
Thanks for the information!!! I'll give this a try.
Kevin
Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 10:39:01 AM, you wrote:
AS> Kevin....the only way I know to get Linux file system (ext2)
AS> formatted zip discs is to format them yourself with the linux
AS> command mkfs or mke2fs. When you buy zip discs in the store
AS> they are factory formatted and that file system is vfat
AS> (dos/windows). These factory formatted (or ones you've
AS> formatted with the iomega zip disc formatting program in
AS> windows) discs are partitioned as primary partition 4 so linux
AS> calls the device hda4 (or hdb4 or hdc4 or hdd4 or sca4 or
AS> scb4....etc).
AS> Your fstab entry is wrong, it needs to look like this (no matter
AS> what the system says at bootup):
AS> /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
AS> the /mnt/zip directory is just what it says, a subdirectory
AS> named /zip located in the /mnt subdirectory.
AS> At the command line in a console environment type mount /mnt/zip
AS> and then type ls /mnt/zip
AS> there will appear a directory listing of whatever is on the disc
AS> that is inserted in the drive atb the time you typed the
AS> command.
AS> Alan
AS> KevinBoylan wrote:
>>
>> >> Kevin....if youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify
>> >> as hdd4 (partition 4).
>>
>> I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen.
>>
>> But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean
>> dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive
>> would be dos formatted.
>>
>> On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip
>> drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add
>>
>> /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
>>
>> to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the
>> drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or
>> does it have to be created in any special way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
