Please don't flame me for:
1) not having the time to check my facts
2) responding without having any experience w/ATAPI
zips.
BUT....
My Zip drive is of the parallel-port species.
When mounting the zip drive, I must treat the device
as /dev/sda4, if I recall correctly.
The zip drive is /dev/sda, but I must mount the
specific partition, the same way I mount my second harddisk
as /dev/hdb1, not /dev/hdb, dispite the fact that /dev/hdb
has only one partition.
Zip disks are similarly partitioned, which is why I mount
/dev/sda4, not /dev/sda.
For some retarded reason, the factory-default partition
scheme for Zip-disks is to have one primary partion,
but that partiton is numbered 4, rather than 1. (see the
Zip-drive Howto).
So...
If you havn't tried to already, mount the disk as /dev/hdd4,
and see what happens. If that doesn't work, you might want
to do an "fdisk /dev/hdd" and then "p" to take a look at the
disk's partition table.
Let me know if any of this works,
Bryan Scaringe
>
> Andreas M. Lindinger wrote:
>
> > Darren Reynolds wrote:
> > > Was just wondering if anyone has any experience with getting an ATAPI
> > > Iomaga Zip drive to run under Slackware 3.5? I've got my base system
> > > installed and working, but it would still be nice to be able to store
> > > things on a zip disk (considering I'm only going to have about 400M
> > > to play with).
> > I currently have the same problem. Simple mounting of (my) /dev/hdd/
> > doesn't work. As my HOWTO says, for the parallel-port ZIP there's a PPA
> > driver available, at
> >
> > http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ppa/
> >
> > which seems to be required to use a ZIP. Haven't tried it yet, no idea
> > if this also works with an ATAPI (like mine), but maybe something to
> > start with. If there are any more useful infos, I'd also be glad to know
> > them. :)
> >
> > So far, bye,
> > Andi
> >
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