On Monday 12 August 2002 18:06, Andrew Williams wrote:

Mike McCallister wrote:

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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

Mike McCallister wrote:

Thanks to Andrew Williams, Michael Zabielny and Dylan for offering suggestions on mounting my Zip drive. Unfortunately, nothing's working. I've tried adding /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb4, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4 (not at the same time!) with appropriate settings to /etc/fstab, rebooted the system, logged in as both plain user and super-user. Every time I run mount (with a Zip disk inserted), I'm told /dev/whatever "is not a valid block device.

I am manually creating new /zip and /dzip directories under /mnt in Konqueror (ah-hah! A KDE tie-in!) as I edit /etc/fstab. Is that where I'm going wrong? Or should I be creating a 0-byte file instead (there I go, showing my ignorance of the *nix filesystem again)?

Thanks again!

Mike

On Monday 12 August 2002 10:06 am, Andrew Williams wrote:

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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.

Ok, look at the modules. You will need the parallel-port module called parport, scsi_mod and sd_mod if they are not part of the kernel, imm OR ppa (someone else mentioned this), zip-drives changed from one to the other a while ago. modprobe parport modprobe scsi_mod modprobe sd_mod modprobe imm if that complains, then 'rmmod imm' and 'modprobe ppa'. You find the modules in /lib/modules/2.4.??/kernel/drivers/ and subdirectories thereof (the subdirectories are parport and scsi) Try the mount when the modules have loaded correctly. I have a line in my /etc/syslog.conf: *.* /dev/tty9 This puts all system error-messages to screen 9. If you use 9 for something else, try one of 8, 10, 11 or 12. That way you see what modules are complaining about. It has saved me lot of grief by making error-messages immediately visible. Restart syslogd (or reboot) after the syslog change. best of luck. AW -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html