Michael Ayers wrote:
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 15:24, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
IMHO the Zip can be partitioned as an ordinary HD. Use "fdisk" to delete the partition 4 and create a new primary partition 1. Then use "mke2fs /dev/hdd1" to create the ext2 file system there.
This worked perfectly thankyou, but I still can't read my old disks so I guess I will have to rebuild the computer that I had 7.3 installed on and try to move the data the hard way ! It looks as if somebody changed something between 7.3 and 8.1 .
Thanks again for your time and effort
Mike Ayers
I can mount zip disks as either /dev/hdd1 or /dev/hdd4. For original not newly formated (hdd4) I have a line in /etc/fstab which looks like: /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 I also have a line for disks formatted to use hdd1: /dev/hdd1 /media/ZIP auto noauto,user 0 0 You may just lack a mount point and line entry in fstab Terry -- SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386) 2.4.16-4GB Tue Dec 31 10:35:00 CST 2002 10:35am up 4 days, 18:50, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.28, 0.16