Ummm,
Well, first of all it won't be /dev/sda because it is IDE, so it
will be /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /dev/hab
(most likely one of those three depending whether it is master or
slave and cabled to channel 1 or 2,
second, /dev/hdd4 would mount a FACTORY formatted Zip, and it is
unlikely to be vfat but rather fat or msdos fat handles longer
file names so should be the choice.
third (and you probably got this right to get the error message),
the form of the mount command is
mount -t fat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
or
mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
Fourth, a simpler way to do this is to use DrakConf/linuxconf to
set up the filesystem and let it do the work for the options and
the mounting.
Civileme
Martin Foster wrote:
>
> 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
