Okay, now I'm having a bit of annoyance with disk volumes.
After doing my initial install, I unearthed a SCSI (real SCSI, not
parallel-port quasi-SCSI) ZIP-100 drive and SCSI controller. I know
zipdisks are way obsoleted by even CDR's (never MIND DVD-R's), but
bear with me. I have some stuff on them, in MSDOS format, that I'd
like to transfer to HD, convert zip100's to ext3, then copy data back.
BIOS finds the controller just fine.
How do I get Linux to recognize and mount it on startup now? I'm
having trouble even getting it to work even on a session-by-session
basis. After puzzling through man and info screens, I arrived at the
notion that I should do:
#mkdir /mnt/zip100
#mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100
This got me a readable disk; the problem was, it was owned by root,
therefore read-only by non-root, and I couldn't figure out exactly
what file or directory I was supposed to CHMOD to get it otherwise.
Also, as mounted above, the OS regards the zip100 as a NONREMOVABLE HD
and disables the eject capability altogether. How do I correct that?
When I installed EasyLinux previously, I had a secondary (untouched by
Linux) HD, MSDOS format; the installation set itself up to automount
MSDOS volumes. Now, with the Fedora install, there was no such
secondary MSDOS HD, so it didn't set that up, how do I add that
ability now?
I know these are really basic questions, but well, isn't that the
purpose of this forum?
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