Michael George wrote:
> On Jan 12, Kevin Boylan wrote:
> > >> Kevin....if youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify
> > >> as hdd4 (partition 4).
> >
> > I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen.
> >
> > But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean
> > dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive
> > would be dos formatted.
> >
> > On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip
> > drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add
> >
> > /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
> >
> > to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the
> > drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or
> > does it have to be created in any special way?
>
> You need to specify the partition. If it's factory formatted, try /dev/hdd4:
> /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
>
> -Michael
>
Well, you can put BOTH in fstab and specify manual mount of the appropriate one.
I have /mnt/zip, /mnt/zipm and /mnt/zip4 for that purpose. I also have Three (3)
icons for mounting/unmounting. Factory formatted dos is /mnt/zip4, MAC is
/mntt/zipm, and locally formatted dos is /mnt/zip
I format my own with
mkfs -t msdos /dev/hdd
and
mkfs -t hpfs /dev/hdd
I do not care much for the factory formatted nonsense of /dev/hdd4, and I have it
in fstab only for compatibility with the few who use it.
Since I have my own backup system for the network and set it up for users to back
up their data to nfs mounts which eventually end up on CD-Rs and interim end up
on a removable IDE, we don't use zips much except to translate MAC Zips to
PC Zips and vice versa for other people. Other PCs seem to have no trouble with
my DOS-formatted disks.
Civileme
