RE: [suse-linux-e] Pt. II ATAPI zip drive mounting; non-root shu tdown et. al.
Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Rod Johnson [SMTP:rjohns@otenet.gr] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:50 AM Thanks for all the replies (especially to our resident GNU-bee...he must be awfully busy). Even with all the help I still have a few problems. 1) My ATAPI ZIP drive (hdd) has an entry in fstab- /dev/hdd /zip auto noauto,user 0 0 I used mkdir to create /zip. Now when I try to mount, I am told to declare the fs type. When I use the -t vfat option in the mount command, I get the message "/zip is not a block device" Try using /dev/hdd1 instead of /dev/hdd. Finally, can anyone point me to a site that has up-to-date xwindows drivers for n-Vidia cards. I contacted the STB tech support and they sent me to a site that wanted to sell the drivers and an Xfree version for $100. I'm sure it is a viable alternative, but if I am going to have to pay for something, I would rather spend my money on hardware (I bought a winmodem-stupid stupid stupid me). Sounds like you got sent to XiG. The latest XFree is always at http://www.xfree86.org or you could try metroX $39 at http://www.metrolink.com Good luck, Tim
Tim Duggan wrote:
Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Johnson [SMTP:rjohns@otenet.gr] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:50 AM
Thanks for all the replies (especially to our resident GNU-bee...he must be awfully busy). Even with all the help I still have a few problems.
1) My ATAPI ZIP drive (hdd) has an entry in fstab-
I have a parallel port based Zip250 drive and I have to use partition 4 for data and so I'm wondering if "/dev/hdd" should be /dev/hdd4" instead? I have the following entries in my /etc/fstab file so I can easly mount either a vfat or ext2 filesystems from my Zip disk. These are pretty much verbatim from the Zip drive mini-howto document. Since you have an ATAPI zip drive you may or may not the "sync" command. The man pages for "mount" don't say much about the "sync" flag. Since the Zip drive is a removable media type you probably want the "noauto" flag specified so your system doesn't try to mount the drive at bootup time. /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync /dev/sda4 /zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777 When I want to mount a DOS formatted Zip disk and do a "mount /zipdos". This is alot nicer than having to specify the block device and filesystem type.
/dev/hdd /zip auto noauto,user 0 0
I used mkdir to create /zip.
Now when I try to mount, I am told to declare the fs type. When I use the -t vfat option in the mount command, I get the message "/zip is not a block device"
Try using /dev/hdd1 instead of /dev/hdd.
Finally, can anyone point me to a site that has up-to-date xwindows drivers for n-Vidia cards. I contacted the STB tech support and they sent me to a site that wanted to sell the drivers and an Xfree version for $100. I'm sure it is a viable alternative, but if I am going to have to pay for something, I would rather spend my money on hardware (I bought a winmodem-stupid stupid stupid me).
Sounds like you got sent to XiG. The latest XFree is always at http://www.xfree86.org or you could try metroX $39 at http://www.metrolink.com
Good luck, Tim
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