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 didn't vote for his daddy either! Libertarian Party www.lp.org ------------------------------------------------------- BayerWulf Jim's Beowulf Project Looking for giveaway computers and parts Email Jim for details on how you can help build a poor man's super computer.
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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
A Zip100 can be mounted by using sda4 as the device, since it already has vfat on it. When you format a blank disk as ext2 you can mount it as sda. I use the auto syntax in fstab and it automatically mounts the correct filesystem type, as long as ext2, msdos and vfat are filesystems compiled into the kernel JLK On Thursday 22 March 2001 10:48, 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!
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