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