Hi!

OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the drive. "Mount" tells me
that "vfat" is the wrong file system. Any further ideas please?

Regards,
Martin

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:

> Martin;
> 
> To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to
> directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount
> it.
> i.e.
> 
> cd /
> cd /mnt
> md zip
> cd /
> mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
> 
> The "sda4"  in "/dev" maybe different on your machine.  Check the
> "/var/log/dmesg" file to see what your system thinks it is.  Also note that you
> cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive.
> 
> Hope this helps;
> Bruce :-)
> 
> Martin Foster wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find
> > that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can
> > someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin

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