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Re: Internal Atapi Zip Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Fri Nov 6 09:10:07 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
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Cc: <rimmer@calvin.nu>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:20:49 -0500
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You are mounting the Zip disk as a native MS-DOS partition...
Why not mount it as a Linux partition instead?
You can just mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc
Then mount it as a Linux Native device.
-JMS
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Fishwick <rimmer@calvin.nu>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: Internal Atapi Zip Drive
>> Just wondering how to set up or Mount my internal Zip
>> drive, it shows on boot as hdc and I was wondering
>> how to add it to fstab
>
>Pre-formatted Zip disks have 1 partition on them, this being partition 4
>for some reason.. therefore to mount it, you will need to do something
>along the lines of: 'mount /dev/hdc4 /xxx' (where 'xxx' is the directory
>you want it mounted in).
>
>An fstab entry should look something like the following:
>
>/dev/hdc4 /xxx msdos defaults 0 0
>
>(at least, this is how mine looks) Again, where 'xxx' is the directory
>you want it mounted in, and 'msdos' is the default filesystem on the disk.
>
>Hope that this helps
>
>Regards
>
>Chris
>
>
>
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