FYI, IDE Zip drives exist. I have one, so I should know. Zip drives come in more
flavours than just the parallel/USB ones.
Anyway, can't help you with your problem though; mine gets recognised OK, but
it's acting weird, so I believe a click-of-death is pretty imminent :-(
On Mar 28 John D. Herron wrote:
> 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 <bold>USB</bold> 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.
>
>
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