[99240] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Problems mounting internal Zip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Fri Nov 13 02:19:44 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <bdonovan@student.umass.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 01:31:56 -0500
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Not to sound overly simplistic, but did you remember to make a Linux
Filesystem on the zip drive first?
I.E.
mkfs /dev/hdd
(or whatever the zip drive appears as )
-JMS
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Donovan <bdonovan@student.umass.edu>
To: Redhat-List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 7:06 PM
Subject: Problems mounting internal Zip
>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
>noauto,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>
>none /proc proc defaults
>/dev/hdb7 none swap sw
>
>/dev/hda1 /win/c vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>/dev/hda5 /win/d vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>/dev/hda6 /win/e vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>
>All other drives mount properly, thanks for your time.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>Brian Donovan
>UMass ECE 2002
>e-mail: bdonovan@student.umass.edu <mailto:bdonovan@student.umass.edu>
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>
>
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