i think you have to mount zip drives as scsi devices if i remember rightly, so wahtever the dev device id for scsi should work (sorry don't know the technical term for this stuff as a "newbie" cheers howard
---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Subject: RE: Mounting Zip drive... Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:29:52 +1200 > >Hi all, >I have dropped MDK9.0 and have installed Debian 3.0 (I know the >stuff is a >bit older, but it is a good way to learn more about how things run >in Linux >IMHO as everything isn't done for you. >Anyway I have got it installed ok and I am setting up my 'mounts'. >I have got my DVD, CDRW, Floppy and Windows partition set up ok. >But when I setup my 100Meg Iomega Zip drive (Internal, 1st IDE, >slave) I am >so far unable to get it to mount. When mounting I get: > >paradox:/home/craig# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/zip >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, >� � � �or too many mounted file systems > >This is my fstab entry for the zip: > >/dev/hdb � � � �/mnt/zip � � � �vfat � �noauto,user � � � � � � 0 � >� � 0 > >As I am a newbie I imagine that I have got something setup >incorrectly. >Do I have to have the zip device setup on something apart from >/dev/hdb ? >Thanks in advance for any advice. > >Craig > >p.s. I have tried several zip disks, all formatted and working from >Win98 >
