Martin;
Glad it worked. Just to set the record straight. I am very new to Linux, however;
dos and windows I'm not. Fat and MSDOS mode are 16 bit, they typically can only handle
the 8.3 filenames (this is the old system), the new system VFat is 32 bit and can
handle
the long file names. This is why when you enter a dos window from win95/98 and you try
"dir" the long filenames will not be displayed. It will only display the first 6
characters of the filename with a tilde "~" and some number that dos assigns it with
the
extension.
I also mentioned that you should check the "dmesg" file, this tells you what linux
thinks your drives are. On my system my second cdrom(RW) and my zip drive are sensed
by
linux as SCSI devices (as sd0 and sda) which they are not; there IDE.
About the 4 (hdc4), not sure; but; again if you look in the "dmesg" file you'll see
what
your drives are being assigned at by linux.
Bruce :-)
Martin Foster wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is the one that works:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
>
> Many thanks to you and everybody else for solving the problem. Your help is
> much appreciated.
>
> Next question(s) :-)
>
> Why hdc4 and not hdc?
>
> Can I put an entry for mounting the Zip drive in /etc/fstab?
>
> What is "supermount"?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> *** On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>
> > Ummm,
> >
> > Well, first of all it won't be /dev/sda because it is IDE, so it
> > will be /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /dev/hab
> > (most likely one of those three depending whether it is master or
> > slave and cabled to channel 1 or 2,
> >
> > second, /dev/hdd4 would mount a FACTORY formatted Zip, and it is
> > unlikely to be vfat but rather fat or msdos fat handles longer
> > file names so should be the choice.
> >
> > third (and you probably got this right to get the error message),
> > the form of the mount command is
> >
> > mount -t fat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
> > or
> > mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
> >
> > Fourth, a simpler way to do this is to use DrakConf/linuxconf to
> > set up the filesystem and let it do the work for the options and
> > the mounting.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> > Martin Foster wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the drive. "Mount" tells me
> > > that "vfat" is the wrong file system. Any further ideas please?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > Martin;
> > > >
> > > > To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to
> > > > directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount
> > > > it.
> > > > i.e.
> > > >
> > > > cd /
> > > > cd /mnt
> > > > md zip
> > > > cd /
> > > > mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
> > > >
> > > > The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine. Check the
> > > > "/var/log/dmesg" file to see what your system thinks it is. Also note that you
> > > > cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps;
> > > > Bruce :-)
> > > >
> > > > Martin Foster wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > >
> > > > > Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I
>find
> > > > > that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can
> > > > > someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Martin
