I don't know Zip drives very well, BUT I have gotten 2 ORB drives going with RH 7.1 and RH 7.2. My ORB drives are 2 GByte and are USB, masquerading as SCSI, a bit like CD-RW being IDE, masquerading as SCSI.
My Technique (refer to SxS): as root type: modprobe sg modprobe ide-scsi modprobe usb-core OR modprobe sd_mod (sd_mod in RH7.1 and 7.2) modprobe usb-uhci OR modprobe usb-ohci (depends on your drive) modprobe usb-storage You only need to do this once is you use a GUI system. in /mnt mkdir ./orbdrive using your favourite editor (?vi) adjust fstab to add the line /dev/sd5 /mnt/orbdrive auto noauto,users,rw 0 0 I don't advise using kudzu I like GUI (because I hate typing) and use KDE to put an icon for the drive Finally, create an icon for the drive and choose the appropriate drive and icons, mounted and unmounted. While I could use ORB icons, they don't look good and have no room for the mounted symbol. There are icons for the Zip drive already. This works well for me, but I assumed you had a USB, cum (sic!) SCSI drive. You may have a parallel drive, in which case refer to Step x Step. Note that I chose sd5 for the drive as that worked. I don't know why. HTH Cheers, Rick On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:24, you wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:55, Lee wrote: > > Any one know the command to mount a zip drive in Mandrake 8.0? Have been > > using mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip on Caldera systems. Doesn't work > > in Mandrake 8.0 says no such thing as sda4 and that /dev/zip isn't a > > block device. > > it's telling you the truth. > > Either > 1) you have another scsi 'device' you haven't mentioned. > > answer try /dev/sdb4 > > 2) More likely (just like COL) you have to force feed the zip module at > boot time as no hardware detect binary (afaik) finds this animal. > > *if* your zip is a genuine scsi, see 1) above > *if* your zip is a parallel > > modprobe imm # old models > modprobe ppa # post 1989 models > > *if* your zip is ide > > modprobe ide-floppy #yes, ide-floppy. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
