Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (179 mails)

[Klaus Hartmann <koc.hartmann@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 August 2002 18:06, Andrew Williams wrote:
> Mike McCallister wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have been lurking here almost from the beginning of the list.
> > You are a great group. I realize this question is only
> > peripherally related to KDE, but I hope you can help anyway.
> >
> > How can I get  my system to recognize my external Iomega Zip
> > drive? I have read the SuSE Help topics on mounting file
> > systems, "using Zip floppies" and the "Iomega Zip Drive" and
> > this has not been very helpful. I have added the following
> > lines to my fstab file:
> >
> > /dev/sdb	/zip	ext2	rw,user,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/sdb	/zip	msdos	rw,user,noauto 0 0
> >
> > but when I try to "mount  zip"  from Konsole, it complains that
> > it can't find zip in fstab or mtab. When I type "mount /zip",
> > it says /dev/sdb is "not a valid block device."
> >
> > Any help much appreciated!
>
> mount /dev/sda4 /zip
> does it for me with a parallel-port drive.  If you have another
> scsi device in there, sda4 becomes sdb4.  Make sure you load any
> modules you need if this does not work immediately.
> The 'auto' suggestion in the other reply was ok as well, but that
> '4' is important for the parallel-port zip.
HI,

it is a littlebit more complicated. Since zip-disks a more or less 
harddisks you can partition them using fdisk, so the '4' is 
actually only true for the preformated disks as you buy them. If 
you wish to, you can change the partition number by creating a new 
partition after deleting the existing, even though there is no 
point in it.

And you can have zip-disks without any partition on them. They would 
typically be created with OS/2 before Version 4 FP6 and should be 
mountable by omitting the partitionnumber.

Klaus