Nope. Beats me. Like I said, I don't have a Zip drive. Unless, of course, you
don't actually HAVE a zip disk inserted into the drive, you certainly can't
mount something that's not there.
Are you sure its hdd, slave on the secondary IDE chain?
Good luck,
Tim
Previously, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> Ok, tried changing to /dev/hdd and get the same type of
> response..../dev/hdd is not a valid block device. Any other thoughts?
>
> Vern
>
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> > You've partitioned your zip disk?
> > Wouldn't /dev/hdd4 be the fourth partition on hdd?
> > I would think you just want 'mount /dev/hdd <mount point>'
> > But, I don't have a zip disk.
> > HTH,
> > Tim
> >
> > Previously, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> > > I am running Caldera eW3.1 and have an internal atapi zip drive on
> > > hdd4. The problem is that I can't mount it. I have tried as user and
> > > root but it gives me an error saying "mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid
> > > block device". I did lsmod and it does show ide-floppy. In /etc/fstab I
> > > have /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> > >
> > > I've tried the stepbystep and mailing list archives but nothing I try
> > > makes it work. I had this drive working before in eDesktop2.4 and can't
> > > remember doing anything differently. Anyone know what I have done wrong
> > > or am missing?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Vern
> > >
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