Jim - you're not alone out there! "James (Jim) Hatridge" wrote:
Hi all
I've got my Zip 100 external working. It works great with blank diskettes. BUT when I try to mount the zip tools disk I get this error:
Mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device.
I tried to mount it as both a vfat and msdos. Either worked, any ideas?
TIA!
-- Jim Hatridge Proud Linux User #88484 Owner -- beowulf-newbie list
I have a similar problem, with a Zip 250 USB, running off my (newe) Toshiba laptop. I'm running SuSE 7.0 and am getting the "not valid block device" both with the Tools disc and also with a blank (but formatted) disc. Running dmesg gives the output below (I've filtered out all the non-USB bits). Any of you clever people out there have an answer for us? Matthew Smith SuSE Linux fan since V5... Messages: bLinux version 2.2.16 (root@Laptop.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Aug 2 20:03:33 GMT 2000 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.232 $ time 20:14:50 Aug 2 2000 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: Intel USB controller: setting latency timer to 0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi : 2 hosts. usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 922 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: 61.T Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 932 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 938 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 944 . lots more of the same... . usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1022 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1028 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1034 usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1699 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1705 . lots more of the same again . usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 453 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 458 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 463 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 467 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 471 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 00 sda : sense not available. sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2