Michael Adams wrote:
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> second dilemna is trying to get my atapi zip drive to work. I hear it
> likes the 4th partition on your hard drive. I only partitioned two
> sections on my slave drive. (Which is devoted to linux exclusively)
You don't quite have it there. The factory formatted Zip disks are
formatted so that the only partition on the Zip disk is partition 4.
Thus when you go to mount the Zip disk you need a line something like:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt
What this does is mounts the 4th partition on the first device on the
second IDE channel (/dev/hdc4) using the mount point of /mnt and uses
the M$ VFAT filesystem (FAT32 with long filenames). Of course you
would replace the item after the -t with whatever filesystem is on the
Zip disk you are trying to mount.
One other thing to keep in mind is whether you have support for the
Zip drive in your kernel or not. For the IDE Zip drive you want
"ATAPI Floppy" (at least that's what it's called with the 2.0 series -
not sure about the 2.2 kernels) support, either in the kernel or as a
module.
How you partitioned your hard drive is really irrelevant in this
case. It's more a case of Iomega doing things really wierd for some
reason.
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