mounting zip disk

Chet Ranaweera ckranaweera at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 06:49:46 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:13:06 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 04:29 +0000, Chethiya Ranaweera wrote:
> >
> > >From: Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com>
> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > >To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > >Subject: mounting zip disk
> > >Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:42:07 -0800
> > >
> > >When I put a zip disk in the drive and use the "Mount" command I get
> > >from the right mouse button applied to the zip disk icon on my KDE
> > >desktop I get the error message: "mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block
> > >device.  Please check that the disk is entered correctly."
> > >
> > >What does this message mean and how can I get this zip disk mounted?  (I
> > >don't care if the solution involves losing data on the zip disk.)
> > >
> > >Thanks for the help!
> > >Jerry
> > >
> > >--
> > Jerry,
> > Is your zip disk already formatted? If it is, then make sure that you have
> > ntfs file system installed. Type cat /proc/filesystems and check for ntfs.
> > Now there could be some glitch which saw before. If you type /sbin/fdisk -l
> > you migh be able to see your zip drive. Compare the zipdevice name with the
> > one you get in the kde menu. They might be not the same. In that case follow
> > this:
> >
> > mkdir /mnt/zip
> > mount /dev/zipdevice_name  /mnt/zip -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
> > (Assuming you have ntfs file system and use the fdisk device name for
> > 'zipdevice_name' )
> >
> > And you should be able to mount your zip disk.
> > --Chet
> >
> 
> Chet,
> 
> Unless I have been sleeping weirdly, what does NTFS have to do with a
> zip drive?
> 
> The zip disks I have all come preformatted with a fat filesystem.
> 
> Please enlighten me with details if I have missed the train here and
> NTFS is now standard on zip disks.
> 
> >
> 
> --
Ok, then try to use VFAT and see whether it works instead of ntfs. It
ntfs worked for me somehow.




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