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> Now that I have my SCSI card and ZIP drive recognized on boot, how do I
> mount it?
>
> I know that I can use hd for hardrives and fd for floppy drives, but what
is
> a SCSI removable disk drive? Will the mounting automatically sense the
> FAT16 partition on the ZIP and load VFAT?
>
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As per the other replies on the list, you must know which device your zip
disk is. If it is the only scsi drive in your system it will be /dev/sda4 if
it's the second, /dev/sdb4 and so on.
By far and away the easiest method to setting this up is to edit your fstab
file (found in /etc).
Add the following line (changing the partition and the mount point as
required):
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto 0 0
All the parameters are seperated by tabs (difficult to do in email). The
vfat allows you to use long filenames (case sensitive) if you wish and will
mean your zip disks are readable as a Win95/98 Fat32 disk, but can also
happily be read in Linux.
The user,noauto means any user can mount/unmount the disks, the noauto means
don't try to mount any present disk on bootup (simply remove if you'd rather
this did happen).
Once you've added this line (as root), you can simply type at the command
prompt 'mount /mnt/zip' - the system will look into /etc/fstab to find out
what to do so you don't need to tell it every time.
Of course as this is a Mandrake list, what you should really do is to add an
icon on your desktop, but thats really straightforward and this emails
getting long, so if you want to do that and don't know how send another
post....
Regards,
Martin.
