zip drive problem

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:29:01PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> FC1, w/ KDE.
> [root at moe charles]# uname -r
> 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
> 
> What type filesystem do I have to have on my zip disks to be able to mount 
> them with the default entery in /etc/fstab?  I've just booted to windows and 
> formatted a 100M disk with the fat filesystem, but...
> 
> [root at moe charles]# mount /mnt/zip
> mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
> 
> I *can* mount them at /dev/sda1...
> [root at moe charles]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip
> [root at moe charles]#
> 
> >From my /etc/fstab...
> /dev/sda4               /mnt/zip                auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

I suspect it isn't a matter of file system but of which device you are
trying to load. If you can mount at /dev/sda1, then try changing the
line in fstab to reflect that.

For more info, see the ZIP Drive HOWTO, at http://www.tldp.org/

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