FC4: zip-drive not working

[Scott Talbot]

H.Breimer wrote:

>Last month on FC3 I made my updates on a zip-drive that has always
>worked.
>Now, moved over to FC4, no luck.
>
>"Unable to mount the selected volume.
>
> mount could not determine the
> filesystem type, and none was specified"
>
>lspci, lshal, fstab, udev and nautilus show signs of recognizing my 
>IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI.
>
>google did not help. For bugzilla I would not know where to look.
>
>Hint anyone?
>thx Henk
>
>  
>
    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.  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