On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:50, Tarragon Allen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: [SNIPT] > > How can I create /dev/sda4? Or how can I mount /dev/sda4? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Ed > > The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive. > I suspect that Zip drives don't have that many partitions. > > Does "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip2" work? Do you have any other SCSI > drives?
No, the sda4 *is* correct for any Zip cartridges, unless they have been reformatted (e.g. to ext2). The weird data partition number has, AFAIR, to do with both MacOS & VFAT partition tables being present on the disk, or at least *potentially* present. As others have answered, either the devfs or the supermount (or an evil combo of the two) are the most likely suspects in this scenario -- john in syd
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