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Re: no luck mounting Internal Zip drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Beck)
Sat Nov 7 21:24:58 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:18:34 -0800 (PST)
From: John Beck <swampgod@rocketmail.com>
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If I do a on a msdos formatted iomega zip disk
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
it appears to mount it, but then when I cd in to
/mnt/zip all I get is lost+found
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
gives an error about trying to mount an extended
partition instead of a logical drive
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---Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------------
> I know, I go WAY overboard with these shell
scripts....
>
> MSG
>
>
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