[SLE] Can't "see" zip.
Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2. Thanks, Fred /dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 -- It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 03:06]:
Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2.
Depends on whether this is an external parallel or an internal ATAPI drive.
For the former,
/dev/sda4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
hould do the trick for standard ZIP disks (assuming imm driver is loaded).
For the latter it should be
/dev/hda4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but hda looks *very* suspicious as this normally is the disk drive. I would
need to know exactly what drives you have attached to which channel and
whether they're configured as master or slave in order to tell you the
correct device.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 03:06]:
Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2.
Depends on whether this is an external parallel or an internal ATAPI drive.
For the former,
/dev/sda4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
should do the trick for standard ZIP disks (assuming imm driver is loaded).
For the latter it should be
/dev/hda4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but hda looks *very* suspicious as this normally is the disk drive. I would need to know exactly what drives you have attached to which channel and whether they're configured as master or slave in order to tell you the correct device.
It's a slave on the 2nd controller on the MOB "behind" the CD drive (internal Zip-250 IDE). There are 2 hard drives....hda and hdb. Thanks, Fred -- It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 03:51]:
It's a slave on the 2nd controller on the MOB "behind" the CD drive (internal Zip-250 IDE).
There are 2 hard drives....hda and hdb.
OK. Then this is the correct entry for your ZIP drive:
/dev/hdc4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This assumes standard preformatted Iomega ZIP disks.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 03:51]:
It's a slave on the 2nd controller on the MOB "behind" the CD drive (internal Zip-250 IDE).
There are 2 hard drives....hda and hdb.
OK. Then this is the correct entry for your ZIP drive:
/dev/hdc4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This assumes standard preformatted Iomega ZIP disks.
Yep.....used the disk under 'Bloze...works very well. This setting didn't work either. Trying it mount the drive didn't work. If there's a driver it needs, I'm not aware of it. Thanks, Fred -- It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, If it's behind the cdrom on the second controller try /dev/hdd4 /zip (whatever options you want) 0 0 This works for mine. Hope this helps, Mike On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 03:51]:
It's a slave on the 2nd controller on the MOB "behind" the CD drive (internal Zip-250 IDE).
There are 2 hard drives....hda and hdb.
OK. Then this is the correct entry for your ZIP drive:
/dev/hdc4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This assumes standard preformatted Iomega ZIP disks.
Yep.....used the disk under 'Bloze...works very well. This setting didn't work either. Trying it mount the drive didn't work. If there's a driver it needs, I'm not aware of it.
Thanks,
Fred
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* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 04:33]:
/dev/hdc4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This assumes standard preformatted Iomega ZIP disks.
Yep.....used the disk under 'Bloze...works very well. This setting didn't work either. Trying it mount the drive didn't work. If there's a
Argl. Seems I should check a bit more what I wrote :) Naming of IDE devices
is as follows:
master slave
primary channel hda hdb
secondary channel hdc hdd
2nd controller
primary channel hde hdf
secondary channel hdg hdh
And so on.
So for you ZIP drive this should of cause have been:
/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Sorry for the confusion.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [20000417 04:33]:
/dev/hdc4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This assumes standard preformatted Iomega ZIP disks.
Yep.....used the disk under 'Bloze...works very well. This setting didn't work either. Trying it mount the drive didn't work. If there's a
Argl. Seems I should check a bit more what I wrote :) Naming of IDE devices is as follows:
master slave primary channel hda hdb secondary channel hdc hdd
2nd controller primary channel hde hdf secondary channel hdg hdh
And so on.
So for you ZIP drive this should of cause have been:
/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Sorry for the confusion.
No problem....got it working as well as it can without software for Linux. :) Fred -- It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:05:15PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2.
Thanks,
Fred
/dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Windows-Formatted disks use hd?4, since the meat of the disk is on the fourth slice. Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for; I don't work for Iomega ;). If you reformat the disks for any other file system (such as ext2), you can use the entire disk instead of a partition and get away with it just fine. For instance, `mke2fs /dev/hda' would make the entire hda device a usable ext2 partition. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Just curious... I have always used vfat formatted zip disks when using my zip drive uder linux. I only recent;y started using ext2 formated disks My entry in fstab for vfat disks was /dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 but I have to chage it to /dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 in order to mount my ext2 disks. Since I now have both vfat and ext2 formatted zip disks, is there a way I can have one combined entry in fstab or can i list both of the above entries in fstab with no problems and have linux be able to figure out which type of disk is in the drive? On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:05:15PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in > > my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2. > > > > Thanks,
Fred
/dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Windows-Formatted disks use hd?4, since the meat of the disk is on the fourth slice. Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for; I don't work for Iomega ;). If you reformat the disks for any other file system (such as ext2), you can use the entire disk instead of a partition and get away with it just fine. For instance, `mke2fs /dev/hda' would make the entire hda device a usable ext2 partition.
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reg hughson wrote:
I have always used vfat formatted zip disks when using my zip drive uder linux. I only recent;y started using ext2 formated disks My entry in fstab for vfat disks was
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but I have to chage it to
/dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
in order to mount my ext2 disks.
Since I now have both vfat and ext2 formatted zip disks, is there a way I can have one combined entry in fstab or can i list both of the above entries in fstab with no problems and have linux be able to figure out which type of disk is in the drive?
If it was me, I'd create two mount points, /zipe for the ext2 disks, and /zipv for the vfat disks, and then change /etc/fstab to read: /dev/hdd1 /zipv vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /zipe ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Then you could specify the type easily, using either 'mount /zipe' or 'mount /zipv'.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:05:15PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in > > my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2. > > > > Thanks,
Fred
/dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Windows-Formatted disks use hd?4, since the meat of the disk is on the fourth slice. Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for; I don't work for Iomega ;). If you reformat the disks for any other file system (such as ext2), you can use the entire disk instead of a partition and get away with it just fine. For instance, `mke2fs /dev/hda' would make the entire hda device a usable ext2 partition.
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:
reg hughson wrote:
I have always used vfat formatted zip disks when using my zip drive uder linux. I only recent;y started using ext2 formated disks My entry in fstab for vfat disks was
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but I have to chage it to
/dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
in order to mount my ext2 disks.
Since I now have both vfat and ext2 formatted zip disks, is there a way I can have one combined entry in fstab or can i list both of the above entries in fstab with no problems and have linux be able to figure out which type of disk is in the drive?
If it was me, I'd create two mount points, /zipe for the ext2 disks, and /zipv for the vfat disks, and then change /etc/fstab to read:
/dev/hdd1 /zipv vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /zipe ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Then you could specify the type easily, using either 'mount /zipe' or 'mount /zipv'.
That's what I did! As an extra bonus: I have KwikDisk installed in my tool tray. Both types of zip disk appear in the menu when I click on the KwikDisk icon. JLK
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:05:15PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in > > my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2. > > > > Thanks,
Fred
/dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Windows-Formatted disks use hd?4, since the meat of the disk is on the fourth slice. Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for; I don't work for Iomega ;). If you reformat the disks for any other file system (such as ext2), you can use the entire disk instead of a partition and get away with it just fine. For instance, `mke2fs /dev/hda' would make the entire hda device a usable ext2 partition.
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, reg hughson wrote:
Just curious...
I have always used vfat formatted zip disks when using my zip drive uder linux. I only recent;y started using ext2 formated disks My entry in fstab for vfat disks was
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but I have to chage it to
/dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Considering the amount of difference in the fstab entries (from what I've read, I am surprised that the first one worked - but I don't have a zip drive) I seriously doubt that you could create a combined entry. This is most specifically because the first entry is referring to a specific partition, while the second is taking the entirety of an unpartitioned disk. However, you could create a directory /zip2, and change the second entry to refer to it. Then you could insert a vfat disk, mount /zip, umount /zip, insert an ext2 disk, mount /zip2 I think that's probably the best you can do. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* reg hughson (rhughson@home.com) [20000417 19:00]:
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This is a partioned media using the first partition.
/dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This is an unpartitionend media, i.e. a 'superfloppy'.
in order to mount my ext2 disks.
In order to make both disks similiar, create an ext2 partition on the media
(I'd recommend cfdisk for that) and then use 'mke2fs /dev/hdd1' to create
the actual filesystem. Then create *one* entry in fstab with auto as
filesystem:
/dev/hdd1 /zip auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
This will let mount try to determine the right filesystem. In order for this
to also work with vfat, you have to create the file /etc/filesystems (if
you're not using 6.4). Here's the one from 6.4:
-------------->8 cut 8<-------------------
vfat
hfs
minix
-------------->8 cut 8<-------------------
Actually the first entry would suffice for you, but the others can't harm.
Philipp
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* Jon Pennington (jpennington@atipa.com) [20000417 17:24]:
Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for;
They aren't really used for anything :) It's done for compatibility with
macs, which can only use ZIP disks if partitioned like this.
Philipp
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