Mounting Zip drive on FC4?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Thu Sep 27 22:18:43 UTC 2007
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I've got an FC4 installation running that I'm about to change over to
> F7. I need to get some of the data backed up and the computer has a
> Zip drive. The problem is I can't figure out what the device name
> is. This is all automatic on F7. How do I determine the name for
> the drive?
If it's a parallel port or USB drive, it should show up as a scsi
device (/dev/sdX). If it's a built in IDE drive, as an ide device
(/dev/hdX).
If it's an external drive, shut it down, and plug the cable in to both
the computer and the drive. Open a terminal on the computer. As root,
run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Now turn on the drive. As the drive
comes up, you should see a message indicating the device file the
kernel assigns to the drive.
If it's a parallel port drive, you'll need to insert the appropriate
module, either ppa or (I think) mma. As root, in another window and
with tail still running:
modprobe ppa
If the device is plugged in and on, that should produce a message as
above.
After that, you will need to know the partition number so you can
mount it.
fdisk -l /dev/[h|s]dX
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