I went through the whole thing of getting an internal zip to work a few
months back. Here is how you can get it to work:
-Open the terminal screen and issue the command: dmesg |less
Hit the space bar to scroll down, just to make sure it is hdd. You
should see a line like:
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
If you don't see this line or a similar one (maybe hdc or hde), then you
may have to recompile your kernel and assign it as a SCSI floppy (I
doubt that you will have to resort to that though).
-Now that you are sure that it is hdd, or whatever, create a
subdirectory as has been suggested, either md /zip or md /zip100. I
just use /zip.
-Use an editor to change /etc/fstab
you need a line that reads:
/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
I read once why you need the 4 after hdd but forget now. I think it has
to do with how the partitions are read. Anyway, if you do not include
the 4, then it will not work.
-At this point you may issue the command mount /zip and you should see
the disk being read. Unmount by using umount /zip
You might also change the user permissions on the drive.
Finally, if you are using KDE, go back and follow my instructions for
the nifty icon.
-Glen
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