Re: [newbie] Zip drive Access

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 04:30:16 -0800

might be an idea to make sure the drive works under windows, and the disk your trying is not a duff. zip drives are not the most reliable beasties
 

Rick
 
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: [newbie] Zip drive Access

Hi guys

 

I have installed an internal zip drive into my Mandrake 8.1 machine and I am having dramas getting access to the drive

 

Using hardrake I can find that the zip drive is there as /dev/hdd

 

However if I try to use the mount (i.e. under KDE on the desktop I make a new floppy device link where the device is /dev/hdd and mount point is /mnt/zip)

I get an error saying no device or could not mount the device /dev/hdd does not exist

 

Using an article from linuxnewbie.org I was told to modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file with:

 

Insmod parport

Insmod ppa

 

And also modifying the fstab file with the same line as on my other computer

 

/dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0

 

Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong

 

Thanks for your help

Rick J

 

PS once I have sorted this I may or should I say will need help in setting up my USB zip drive and USB printer so if you have any pointers for that please let me know, thanks again

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