Well, the time has come to finally try and get the zip drive that's been sitting idly in this computer ever since I install Debian Sid about 6 months ago, up and running. I've never gotten it to work so far, having tried the traditional stuff that always worked before (mount /dev/hdd /zip, making an entry in /etc/fstab to that effect). I worked at it a bit half-heartedly when I first set up the machine, then gave up. Now my wife wants me to format some zip disks for her, so I need to find out what the problem is and get it useable. This is an IDE Zip 100 drive - nothing out of the ordinary. It's the slave on the secondary IDE channel. It worked fine under the previous OS I had installed on this machine (Libranet - a Debian knock-off). I didn't move any cables or jumpers when I removed Libranet and installed Sid. But now, it's just stopped working. When I issue the command mount /dev/hdd /zip I get /dev/hdd: Invalid argument mount: /dev/hdd: can't read superblock. The drive physically works since, when I insert a disk the light does on and it spins up. I can't totally rule out hardware failure, but I'm not looking at that seriously now since it worked fine up to the upgrade. I recall looking at dmesg oputput and seeing the drive show up as an IDE zip device at /dev/hdd - so I can't see that I'm doing something wrong there. Is there a way to double check? I've been convinced that I'm being foiled by devfs, but that's only an idea and may simply owe to my poor understanding of devfs and how to work with it (are you really even supposed to work with it?). I'm running the 2.6.5 kernel, but the drive was not working under previous 2.4.x kernels I ran either. Any help anyone could give on finally getting this drive working would be greatly appreciated.
James PS Yes, I am issuing the mount command as root, and the directory /zip does exist. I have 4 IDE devices in this machine: hda is a 10GB IDE hard drive, hdb is a CD/DVD ROM drive, hdc is a 20GB IDE hard drive and hdd is the zip drive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
