zip drive problem

[Scott Talbot]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:56, Charles Curley wrote:
> 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/

	There was a thread recently that really helped a lot.  Seems thee is a
file /etc/updfstab.conf.default that kudzu uses to change fstab.  In
that file there is an entry for Zip drives that specifies Partition 4. 
My Zip works with partition = 0, Looks like yours is 1 9no idea why this
should be, but I think it might be that if your disk came with software,
then it may have been set up that way.  I never looked at it with fdisk.

	anyway just edit the file (as root) that should fix your problems.

Scott