FC4: zip-drive not working
Jan Scott
jscott at skynet.be
Wed Jul 6 20:32:14 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:56 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> You have not said what you're trying. i.e. are you trying to mount
> from within the computer:/// in Nautilus or from the command line?
> I am also having trouble mounting from Nautilus, but I can mount using :
> mount /dev/hdb4 /media/zip
>
> Try this: With a disk in the Zip drive:
> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l # use su if you have not set up sudoers file for
> yourself
>
> You should get a list of all ATA and scsi disks/partitions.
I am in the same boat. when I do /sbin/fdisk as root then I only get
information about hda.
Jan
> Find your
> Zip on this list and note which partitions are available. Then mount
> that partition. IOMEGA Zip format tools default to 1 partition number
> 4, but if you have a disk formatted by Linux or windows or whatever, it
> may not be formatted that way. Once you know what partition and dev you
> could mount it manually or edit your /etc/fstab to make it work.
>
> Scott
>
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