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Re: no luck mounting Internal Zip drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Sat Nov 7 19:47:51 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:38:11 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Vidiot wrote:
>
> >> /dev/sda4 /dos/zip vfat noauto,user,uni_xlate,defaults 0 0
> >>
> >> Notice the dev.
> >
> >So?? You are using a SCSI Zip drive rather than an IDE/ATAPI drive...
>
> Nope, IDE/ATAPI. I could never get the SCSI support to work. Compiled
> the kernel to work with IDE/ATAPI and now it works.
>
Do you have SCSI emulation enabled? 's the only way I know to get an
IDE drive to show up as an sdX.
In answer to the oringinal question: If this is the IOmega TOOLS
disk, or a Sony Zip disk, it will be hdc1, and not hdc4. We don't
know why IOMega uses partition 4 on their disks, so don't ask : )
You can either use fdisk to make all of the partitions in a single,
uniform location, or use the following in a script (call it mzip):
-----------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# use mzip to mount, mzip -u to unmount
if [ x"$1" = x-u ]; then
if ( grep /etc/mtab -e /dev/hdc4 -q ); then
umount /dev/hdc4
echo "Zip disk unmounted";
elif ( grep /etc/mtab -e /dev/hdc1 -q ); then
umount /dev/hdc1
echo "Zip disk unmounted";
else
echo "Zip disk not mounted"
fi
exit 0
fi
if (grep /etc/mtab -e /dev/hdc -q); then
echo "Zip Disk Already Mounted";
else
echo -n "Mounting Zip Disk: "
if (mount /dev/hdc4); then
echo "HDC4 Mounted";
else
if(mount /dev/hdc1); then
echo "HDC1 Mounted"
fi
fi
fi
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I know, I go WAY overboard with these shell scripts....
MSG
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