I think you can call Iomega and let them hear that click of
death, and they *should* replace it, I heard.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Rial Juan mewed:
> 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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