Hi Rick Yes, I missed that to start with, but what I am trying to do now is just to run fdisk on the disk so that I can get rid of the 'orrible sda4 M$-DOS partition and create my own sda1, which I can then give a "sensible" file system ;-) It all works fine on my other machine, which is running the EIDE version of the Zip drive; it's just the USB version that won't play with me. I'm going to follow Ben Rosenberg's suggestion of getting onto 7.1 with latest version of kernel, tools and everything. Hopefully this may cure the problem... Thanks for your advice. And a little tip to all out there on USB and SCANNERS - don't buy a Canon USB scanner if you want to use it with Linux - not supported by Sane. Cheers Matthew Smith Rick Green wrote:
Just like any other disk, you must partition it before formatting a filesystem. So you ultimately mount sda1-4, not sda.
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