<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:40 -0800, David Levner wrote: > I have Fedora Core 5 running on a Lenovo T60. I'm trying to access a > zip drive, and the instructions from Iomega's web site say to use a > mount command with the device /dev/sda4. But I don't see /dev/sda4 on > my system. 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: sdb: Spinning up disk......ready SCSI device sdb: 489532 512-byte hdwr sectors (251 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 45 00 10 08 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through 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 sd 4:0:0:0 SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002 sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 (the last three lines were repeated two more times, and then ...) sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 These message were repeated, with the addition that the second time around I got "Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0". I'm not sure how serious these errors are. The zip drive and disk work fine under Windows 2000. So I followed David Chipman's advice about not following advice literally. I tried to mount the drive: $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/zip (By the way, I am logged in as root through su, and I created the directory /media/zip previously.) The command returned this: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or other error In some cases, useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so $ dmesg | tail ... FAT: invalid media value (0x6d) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb. OK. Then I tried Tim's suggestion: $ /sbin/fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM ... 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. Do the errors indicate a bad disk? Do I need to change /etc/fstab? Any other ideas? David Levner </div></div> <hr size=1>Have a burning question? Go to <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx">Yahoo! Answers</a> and get answers from real people who know.</body></html>