FC4: zip-drive not working

Noel Hall speak_it at sympatico.ca
Thu Jul 7 17:42:55 UTC 2005


I have a iomega 250 zip drive.
These are lines from my messages file:
	added mount point /media/floppy for /dev/fd0
***	added mount point /media/zip for /dev/hdd4
	added mount point /media/cdrecorder for /dev/hdc
	added mount point /media/cdrom for /dev/hdb

With a zip disk in the drive, I use the command:
'mount /dev/hdd /media/zip' to access my zip drive

If I use a similar command to what you used:
'mount /dev/hdd4 /media/zip' it doesn't work and I get the same error
message.

Try 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/zip'

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:49 +0200, H.Breimer wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:06:25 -0700
> Scott Talbot <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Jan Scott wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:56 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>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
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >Thanks to these hints I was able to mount my zip drive. I use fedora
> > >core 4.
> > >I did the following:
> > >
> > >I looked into the /dev folder and found a device hdb
> > >As root I did /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb I got:
> > >
> > >[root at localhost Jan]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> > >
> > >Disk /dev/hdb: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes
> > >64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders
> > >Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
> > >
> > >   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > >/dev/hdb4   *           1          96       98288    6  FAT16
> > > 
> > >then mkdir /mnt/zip
> > >
> > >Then finally 
> > >
> > >[root at localhost Jan]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
> > >
> > >I could start reading /mnt/zip.
> > >
> > >Jan
> > >
> > >PS What to do for automounting this at boot?
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> >     The answer to this must be within hotplug and / or udev.  Since I 
> > really don't use the Zip much, I haven't looked into it myself. 
> >     Do you boot up with a disk in the drive? once upon a time I did 
> > this, and it automounted for me (This was probably FC2 though).  I
> > tried  it the other day, and the disk was formatted so poorly that it
> > halted my  boot, saying that the device said I could store 250Mb, but
> > that the disk  reported more  or less than that.
> > 
> >     I guess I'll get to work on that, now that I'm sufficiently
> >     bugged!  
> > Let me know if you have any luck!
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> 
> 
> here is my result:
> 
> [net at pietro ~]$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes
> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb4   *           1          96       98288    6  FAT16
> [net at pietro ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/zip
> [net at pietro ~]$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
> mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
> [net at pietro ~]$
> 
> Must be some other problem than yours.
> 
> thx  Henk
> 




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