Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB

[John D. Herron]

I assume your device is a 100 MB Parallel Zip Drive. If so, it utilizes a built-in SCSI adapter. Hence, Linux should recognize it not as hda (which would normally be the primary (boot) IDE harddisk), but more likely as something like /sdX (where X = its natural position in the SCSI chain after your SCSI harddisks and CD-ROM).
So you might perhaps try mounting it with
mount -t vfat /dev/sdX /mnt/zip
If it's a 100 MB USB Zip Drive, though, Linux may not recognize it at all because of difficulties in handling USB ports (maybe in some future release ?). Good luck !
- john -

At 09:08 28-03-00 +0200, Thorsten wrote:
>.....
>I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On
>my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda.
>Now I want to mount it by using:
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists)
>
>The following error occures.
>
>wrong fs, bad superblock or too many filesystems mounted.