[98856] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Problems mounting internal Zip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 10 20:18:57 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:54:14 -0600
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Brian Donovan sniveled:
>Hello All,
>
>I've been having some difficulties mounting my internal zip drive. The disks
>are readable on ay Win9x machine and I have been unable to mount them on
>kernel 2.0.35. I have checked the mini-HOWTO concerning zip disks but did
>not see anything that might apply. Here is some information as to the error:
>
>boot messages (DMESG):
>hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI floppy drive
>
>error message (mount /zip):
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad super block on /dev/hdd or to many
>mounted file systems.
>
>etc/fstab:
>#
># /etc/fstab
>#
># You should be using fstool (control-panel) to edit this!
>#
># <device> <mountpoint> <filesystemtype> <options> <dump> <fsckorder>
>
>/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda7 /win/f vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>/dev/cdrom /cd iso9660
>user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /fd vfat
>user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
>/dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdb5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdb6 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdd /zip vfat
Add a 4 to the end of /dev/hdd and try again.
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I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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