Hello

I have been using my zip drive with linux since Caldera 1.3 in 1999.  All
zips have the fourth partition.  I have to reformat the disk if I want an
ext2 (see mini-howto on zip).  You can check that by issuing the command
fdisk /dev/sda and then list the partitions.

As for your questions, the answer is no because linux can't mount "the whole
disk".  It is like trying to mount /dev/hda as /.  One normally mounts
/dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 or etc.

Many thanks

Ed


>
> The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive.
I
> suspect that Zip drives don't have that many partitions.
>
> Does "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip2" work?  Do you have any other SCSI
> drives?
>
> t
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