Hi!
This is the one that works:
mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
Many thanks to you and everybody else for solving the problem. Your help is
much appreciated.
Next question(s) :-)
Why hdc4 and not hdc?
Can I put an entry for mounting the Zip drive in /etc/fstab?
What is "supermount"?
Regards,
Martin
*** On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> 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
