Thanks for the message. I am hopeful that this may, yet, be resolved! I
mostly want to use the ZIP drive from the terminal (though it would be nice
if it were accessible in GNOME as well)...
I did what you suggested, and got the following:
root.drewvogel:~$ cd /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0$ ls -ail
total 0
368 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ./
367 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ../
381 0 brw------- 1 root root 3, 0 Dec 31 1969 disc
382 0 brw------- 1 root root 3, 1 Dec 31 1969 part1
383 0 brw------- 1 root root 3, 2 Dec 31 1969 part2
384 0 brw------- 1 root root 3, 5 Dec 31 1969 part5
385 0 brw------- 1 root root 3, 6 Dec 31 1969 part6
What do I do from here? Thanks for all your help!
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Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?
>
>
>
> Yes...
>
> If you are in LM81, that means devfs is in place. Devfs is
> probably one of
> the better advancements in the Linux world within the last
> few years. It
> carries with it quite a few advantages; one of which is to
> actually be able
> to see what devices have been detected on your system. Of
> course you can
> also do this with the /proc directory; however, if you go
> into the devfs
> directory you can see the true names of the devices in
> addition to there
> being only what has been detected.
>
> In the old dev system, when the devices were created on your
> system, they
> were all put there at once, wether they existed or not.
> Devfs puts a brain
> to the problem, and the daemon only places items in their
> real designated
> spots if they actually exist, using a directory structure as
> a means of
> categorization, as it was meant to be used. Devfs gives you
> many other
> features and abilities, I'm nutshelling one aspect of it here
> for brevity.
>
> Caveat: In order to maintain backward compatibility,
> softlinks are created
> in the /dev directory that all correspond to the old device
> names that used
> to be there. These names link you up with the *real* device
> names, the ones
> that have been properly categorized within their respective directory
> structures. This is what you are trying to mount when you
> designate /dev/hdd
> or whatever.
>
> To check what devfs has actually detected on your system, in
> your scenario
> you would go to
>
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
>
> and do something like
>
> ls -ail
>
> To see what you have. What you see (if anything) is all that
> you have
> available to use for mounting. In my case, I see the
> following: __________________________________________________________
> [root@tamriel lun0]# ls -ail
>
> total 0
> 374 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ./
> 373 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 ../
> 387 brw------- 1 root root 3, 0 Dec 31 1969 disc
> 388 brw------- 1 root root 3, 1 Dec 31 1969 part1
>
> [root@tamriel lun0]# pwd
>
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
>
> [root@tamriel lun0]#
> ___________________________________________________________
>
>
> At this point you may use the "real" filenames to mount your
> device. For
> instance, "disc" is telling me that that is the device I
> would use for the
> fdisk command to create or delete partitions; ie, it
> represents the whole
> enchalada of that device. On the other hand, "part1" is
> telling me that
> there is a partition already there. So therefore I could
> issue the following
> command:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/disk
>
> which would mount that dos 7.10 drive to /mnt/disk. I just
> happen to already
> know that it's formatted as a Win95 LBA partition, so I told
> mount that it
> was a vfat filesystem. Telling mount what kind of filesystem you are
> mounting tends to make it happy.
>
> So do a dir of that spot and see what you've got. ;)
>
> L8R,
>
> LX
>
> On Monday 04 February 2002 08:35, you wrote:
> > I've got an ATAPI ZIP drive, and tried the following, based
> on Roman's
> > suggestion:
> >
> > Mkdir /mnt/zip
> > Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD --
> > it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error:
> > "mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device"
> > ...so I tried:
> > Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd
> > ...and I got this error:
> > "mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device"
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --- ===============================================================
> > Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of
> > Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
> > http://pharmacy.uc.edu
> (513)-558-3784
> > ===============================================================
> >
>
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