Todd Slater wrote: > I thought everything was OK when mounting my zip, until I put a disk > in it. I have the type set to auto, which works fine for floppy and > cds, but when I insert a zip disk, I get an error message that it > can't recognize the file system, and none is specified. > > I'm using an IBM/windows disk, I shouldn't have to reformat the disk, > should I? > > TIA, > Todd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
ZIP disks are preformatted to be partition 4, so if you have an internal IDE zip on hdd it will be /dev/hdd4 If a SCSI it is sda4 and so on. devfs may not make the device, so you have to do so manually, once, using mknod. Civileme
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