I'm having some issues with my zip100 drive. Hopefully someone can help me out. I did a clean install of 9.1, and my internal zip 100 was not set up. No problem, I'll just make a mount point and add it to /etc/fstab. /dev/hda /media/zip auto noauto,user,exec, sync 0 0 But, didn't work. Did some reading, tried some screwball guesses. Changed the device to /dev/hda4, and it works perfectly with mount (not with supermount/subfs) hda4? WTF? It's a zip disk. There's only _one_ partition! Hardware-wise, sda[2|5|6|7|8] is a 160GB SATA drive. hdc and hdd are cd-r and dvd-r, respectively. fd0 is floppy. The zip disk is the only device on ide0, and it is set as master (If memory serves). So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda? I made an icon for the drive on my desktop, and it works as expected. When I try to add it to drives:/ in Konqi, it tells me "Writing to drives is not supported." So, if I can't write to the drives:/ io_slave, how do I add the zip drive there? Also, how can I edit the drives currently shown (my dvd-r shows up as cdrecorder(1) in konqi's drives:/ io_slave)? Thanks. Regards, Mark
"Mark A. Taff"
So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
Zip disks for PCs are pre-formatted like this but I don't know why Iomega selected this setup. Anyway, you can change the partitioning by e.g. fdisk. -- A.M.
On Friday 04 June 2004 12:52, Mark A. Taff wrote:
I'm having some issues with my zip100 drive. Hopefully someone can help me out. From the zip-drive howto (http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/ZIP-Drive-8.html#ss8.5): 8.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ?
This is one of the most popular questions, but I don't think anyone has a definite answer to this one. Could be they had their head where the sun don't shine. Maybe there is no reason. I have also read that you can delete partition 4 and create a partition 1 instead, but YMMV.
iomega formatting for both zip and jaz drives makes Linux think it's the 4th partition. If you never need to read the drive with MS Win, you can re-partition it, I think, with fdisk. But then you might not be able to read it from MS. (This is from about 6 years ago, but I believe it's correct.) --doug On Friday 04 June 2004 07:52, Mark A. Taff wrote:
I'm having some issues with my zip100 drive. Hopefully someone can help me out.
I did a clean install of 9.1, and my internal zip 100 was not set up.
No problem, I'll just make a mount point and add it to /etc/fstab.
/dev/hda /media/zip auto noauto,user,exec, sync 0 0
But, didn't work. Did some reading, tried some screwball guesses. Changed the device to /dev/hda4, and it works perfectly with mount (not with supermount/subfs)
hda4? WTF? It's a zip disk. There's only _one_ partition!
Hardware-wise, sda[2|5|6|7|8] is a 160GB SATA drive. hdc and hdd are cd-r and dvd-r, respectively. fd0 is floppy.
The zip disk is the only device on ide0, and it is set as master (If memory serves).
So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
I made an icon for the drive on my desktop, and it works as expected.
When I try to add it to drives:/ in Konqi, it tells me "Writing to drives is not supported."
So, if I can't write to the drives:/ io_slave, how do I add the zip drive there? Also, how can I edit the drives currently shown (my dvd-r shows up as cdrecorder(1) in konqi's drives:/ io_slave)?
Thanks.
Regards,
Mark
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 04:52 -0700, Mark A. Taff wrote:
But, didn't work. Did some reading, tried some screwball guesses. Changed the device to /dev/hda4, and it works perfectly with mount (not with supermount/subfs)
hda4? WTF? It's a zip disk. There's only _one_ partition!
Yes and no... there is only one initialized partition, but there is a standard partition table that can define 4 primary partitions. Traditionally, number four is used for fat formatted zip disks.
So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
I have always used sda4 in fstab - 'sda' alone did never work here. I also use sda1 for ext2 formated zips. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Thanks for the help guys. I could have sworn it used to be just hda in 9.0 and earlier, but it seems I'm just starting to lose my mind. :-) Anyone have any clues about editing the contents of Konqi's drives:/ io slave? Thanks. Regards, Mark On Friday 04 June 2004 04:52 am, Mark A. Taff wrote:
I'm having some issues with my zip100 drive. Hopefully someone can help me out.
I did a clean install of 9.1, and my internal zip 100 was not set up.
No problem, I'll just make a mount point and add it to /etc/fstab.
/dev/hda /media/zip auto noauto,user,exec, sync 0 0
But, didn't work. Did some reading, tried some screwball guesses. Changed the device to /dev/hda4, and it works perfectly with mount (not with supermount/subfs)
hda4? WTF? It's a zip disk. There's only _one_ partition!
Hardware-wise, sda[2|5|6|7|8] is a 160GB SATA drive. hdc and hdd are cd-r and dvd-r, respectively. fd0 is floppy.
The zip disk is the only device on ide0, and it is set as master (If memory serves).
So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
I made an icon for the drive on my desktop, and it works as expected.
When I try to add it to drives:/ in Konqi, it tells me "Writing to drives is not supported."
So, if I can't write to the drives:/ io_slave, how do I add the zip drive there? Also, how can I edit the drives currently shown (my dvd-r shows up as cdrecorder(1) in konqi's drives:/ io_slave)?
Thanks.
Regards,
Mark
Hi all, Has anyone managed to make a cnf401 pcmcia card to work w. 9.0 or 9.1? The cnet published driver is for rh 6.2 and does not like suse, have not found anything else. any help is appreciated. d.
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