Is this a brand new disk?
If so you should format it as such:
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4
then try to mount it
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Claus Atzenbeck mewed:
> sda1 does not work either. :-(
> Here is what Linux is telling me:
>
> *****
> [root@thor working]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
> *****
>
> My kernel does support vfat. I can mount fd0 with -t vfat...
> What is wrong???
>
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Schur wrote:
>
> > I ran into a small problem like this before... try
> running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc
> > but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i
>was swaping out devices alot..
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > > Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip
> > > > drive.
> > > >
> > > > This is the alias in /dev:
> > > > /dev/zip -> sda4
> > > >
> > > > Here one line of fstab:
> > > > /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0
> > > >
> > > > This is what happens:
> > > >
> > > > ****
> > > > [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip:
> > > > Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > > >
> > > > [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs
> > > > type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip,
> > > > or too many mounted file systems
> > > > ****
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Claus.
> > >
> > > Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll
> > > give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with
> > > '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean.
> > > In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command
> > > #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip?
> > > Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does.
> > > Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference...
> > > Lance
