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RE: Problems mounting internal Zip

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Donovan)
Tue Nov 10 20:36:51 1998

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:23:03 -0500
From: Brian Donovan <bdonovan@student.umass.edu>
In-reply-to: <98111018545304.15318@alan.harry.net>
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I have tried mounting with both /dev/hdd and /dev/hdd4. They both result in
the same error message.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank N. Stein [mailto:kcsmart@microlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 7:54 PM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problems mounting internal Zip


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.

--
I distinctly remember forgetting that.




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