Mark A. Taff wrote:
Make sure you have a formatted zip disk in the drive.
As root, `cat /proc/diskstats`
You should get lines like so:
8 1 sda1 44459 44781 0 0 8 2 sda2 643 2100 14 26 8 3 sda3 306 432 0 0 8 4 sda4 6 12 0 0 8 5 sda5 11390 135714 16218 129744 8 6 sda6 15558 248306 8625 69000 8 7 sda7 2809 110314 15318 122544 8 8 sda8 1088 9282 5918 47288 22 0 hdc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 64 hdd 4 15 152 258 0 0 0 0 0 258 258
One of these should represent your zip disk, should be sda4. Your hard drive is hda, your cdrom is either hdb, hdc, or hdd (aka cdrecorder). If you peek through these, you should be able to determine for sure that your zip drive is sda4.
Try mounting with `mount -t vfat /media/zip`
Is the drive showing any signs of life?
Mark
Hi Mark, I did as you said. The Zip seems dead. There is an almost full data disk in it. Thanks, -Joe Here's the output: Password: su: incorrect password joegum@linux:~> su Password: linux:/home/joegum # cat /proc/diskstats 2 0 fd0 16 0 32 492 0 0 0 0 0 492 492 1 0 ram0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 ram1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 ram2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 ram3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 ram4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 ram5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 ram6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 ram7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 ram8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 ram9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 ram10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 ram11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 ram12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 ram13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 ram14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 ram15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 loop0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 loop1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 loop2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 loop3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 loop4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 loop5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 loop6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 loop7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 hda 205268 185763 2950981 8689764 78065 96153 1393696 12280032 0 1390028 20970040 3 1 hda1 192410 192416 0 0 3 2 hda2 3 6 0 0 3 5 hda5 388 913 803 6424 3 6 hda6 198030 2755910 173423 1387272 22 0 hdc 963 150 4560 31112 0 0 0 0 0 27452 31112 9 0 md0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 linux:/home/joegum # mount -t vfat /media/zip Usage: mount -V : print version mount -h : print this help mount : list mounted filesystems mount -l : idem, including volume labels So far the informational part. Next the mounting. The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'. Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted. mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab mount device : mount device at the known place mount directory : mount known device here mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device. One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere: mount --bind olddir newdir or move a subtree: mount --move olddir newdir A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom, or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid . Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd]. For many more details, say man 8 mount . linux:/home/joegum # mount /dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8) none on /subdomain type subdomainfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/hdc on /media/cdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8) linux:/home/joegum #