Lane Lester wrote:
>
> I finally am able to read both the CDRW and the Zip drive. The answer
> seems to have been a combination of all you guys' advice.
Good!
> hdd:<3>ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
> unable to read partition table
I thought ZIP disks came prepartitioned, with partition 4 available.
Seems like this one is not prepartitioned? Or was there no disk in
it? See below.
> scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 13.A
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: Memorex Model: CDRW-2216 Rev: 1.0b
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
This documents the install of the sg kernel module
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Now it IS able to read the ZIP disk partition table. This says that
your ZIP disk IS pre-partitioned.
> And the above gave me the clue I needed for the zip drive: sda is what
> it wants to see in fstab:
> /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
>
> I got tired of all the deleting and relinking to /dev/zip, so I just
> put /dev/sda in fstab.
Should have been sda4, surely? sda is the device (you cannot mount
devices), sda4 is the partition (you can mount partitions).
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
