Hi, There is a mini howto ( /usr/share/doc/howto/en/mini ) with the name "ZIP-Drive.gz". It has all the details on how to setup your zip drive. Hope that it help you. On Tuesday 31 December 2002 15:11, Michael Ayers wrote:
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 13:46, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
twopinkblobs@t-online.de (Michael Ayers) writes:
Has anybody managed to convince their zip drive to use the first primary partition under 8.1 ? And if so how ?
I haven't tried it so I ask: What fails in the following?
# mkdir /media/zip1 # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /media/zip1 # replace hdb with your device # umount /media/zip1
I have tried everything I could find and it still stubbornly refuses to use anything but the fourth partition.
I'm sorry but I read it: I know there are many documents about this topic but I haven't tried anything yet.
Tried that and this was the error: linux:/home/micaye # mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /media/zip1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
Tried it with ext2 same error and with auto the error message is:- linux:/home/micaye # mount -t auto /dev/hdd1 /media/zip1 /dev/hdd1: No such file or directory mount: you must specify the filesystem type
I had this running under 7.3 but then it wouldn't read partition 4 . Tried reading the thing from the rescue system with the same problems. I have been working at this on and off for the last few weeks.
Mike Ayers
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