I ran into a small problem like this before... try running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc
but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i was
swaping out devices alot..
Dave
> Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> >
> > I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip
> > drive.
> >
> > This is the alias in /dev:
> > /dev/zip -> sda4
> >
> > Here one line of fstab:
> > /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0
> >
> > This is what happens:
> >
> > ****
> > [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip:
> > Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >
> > [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs
> > type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> > ****
> >
> > I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Claus.
>
> Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll
> give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with
> '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean.
> In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command
> #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip?
> Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does.
> Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference...
> Lance
>
>
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