Here's a couple of things you can try.
fdisk /dev/sda
now hit p to "print" to screen the partition table. Preformatted zip disks
come from the factory with a primary fat partition of 4, hence /dev/sda4.
However, now that we know a little history of the disk we can see that the
previous owner HAD to change to partition table on the disk and then
reformat it. Since it was done with linux he may have put the partition
number to anything he had a fancy to, and then formatted it to anything he
wanted to. Ext2 comes to mind... Once you figure out which partition he
changed it to, try:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip
Change the 1 for whatever you saw it was in fdisk. If this doesn't work,
use the -t and try it with ext2,vfat,msdos etc.
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Vic wrote:
>
> > I wonder, why does the zip drive on Linux use sda4 rather than
> > sda1?
>
> Neither sda4 nor sda1 is working for me. sda4 is what Mandrake was
> writing into fstab by installing the system.
>
> > I noticed that a mac using "pcexchange" formatted it to sda1.
> >
> > What does a Windows box format a zip disk to?
>
> My zip was formatted originally with a Mac. But this is not the
> problem. Someone already was writing on it using Mandrake.
>
> Still the question: How can I mount my SCSI Zip?
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Regards,
> Claus.
>
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