<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Levner</b> <<a href="mailto:davidlevner@yahoo.com">davidlevner@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span class="q">On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:40 -0800, David Levner wrote:<br>> I have Fedora Core 5 running on a Lenovo T60. I'm trying to access a
<br>> zip drive, and the instructions from Iomega's web site say to use a<br>> mount command with the device /dev/sda4. But I don't see /dev/sda4 on<br>> my system.<br><br></span>Thanks to David Chipman and Tim for their suggestions, I've been able to make some progress. Using David's suggestion (dmesg | grep sd), I found that the device I'm looking for is /dev/sdb. I found messages like these:
<br><br>sdb: Spinning up disk......ready<br>SCSI device sdb: 489532 512-byte hdwr sectors (251 MB)<br>sdb: Write Protect is off<br>sdb: Mode Sense: 45 00 10 08<br>sdb: assuming drive cache: write through<br>sdb:<5>audit(
1169598497.790:214): avc: granted { execmem } for pid=2632
comm="nautilus" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process<br>sd 4:0:0:0 SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002<br>sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error<br>end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
<br>(the last three lines were repeated two more times, and then ...)<br>sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb<br>sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0<br><br>These message were repeated, with the addition that the second time around I got "Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0".
<br><br>I'm not sure how serious these errors are. The zip drive and disk work fine under Windows 2000.<br><br>So I followed David Chipman's advice about not following advice literally. I tried to mount the drive:
<br><br>$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/zip<br><br>(By the way, I am logged in as root through su, and I created the directory /media/zip previously.)<br><br>The command returned this:<br><br>mount: wrong fs type, bad
option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,<br> missing codepage or other error<br> In some cases, useful info is found in syslog - try<br> dmesg | tail or so<br><br>$ dmesg | tail<br>...<br>FAT: invalid media value (0x6d)
<br>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.<br><br>OK. Then I tried Tim's suggestion:<br><br>$ /sbin/fdisk -l<br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 *
1 13 104391 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM<br><br>... and then the zip drive made a noise and the screen hung. I started typing this e-mail. Several minutes later, the zip drive made a noise again and the shell's prompt returned.
<br><br>Do the errors indicate a bad disk? Do I need to change /etc/fstab? Any other ideas?<br><span class="sg"><br>David Levner<br></span></div></div><span class="ad">--</span></div></blockquote><div><br><br>The standard zip disk formatting was to put the data in the fourth partition - so you should be looking for /dev/sdb4. This is the same scheme that many usb thumbdrives use.
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