On Tuesday 19 March 2002 21:54, you wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:30:31 -0500 > > "Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an ATAPI ZIP drive installed in my Linux-Mandrake system > > (running on a Celeron 533, 256 megs memory), and it's not working (it's > > the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel and harddrake reports it as > > hdd). The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are good. > > > > I've got the following in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > > > When I enter "mount /mnt/zip" with a known-good ZIP disk in the drive, I > > get the following: > > root.drewvogel:/etc$ mount /mnt/zip > > mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device > > > > Dmesg reports it as there: > > hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive > > hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed. Can someone help? > > /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto > > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > > > When I enter "mount /m > > I have read some of the other responses. > > To your lilo append you need to add hdd=ide scsi and reboot. should be hdd=ide-scsi here if this is the way to go. Also I think I forgot to add run # /sbin/lilo after adding a line in lilo. That way it gets written to memory. > Run harddrake. > You should now have 2 listing for your zip drive /dev/hdd/ and /dev/sda. > If that is now true add the following to /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip1 auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > In /mnt if none exists create the dir zip1 > > I prefer to reboot the system at this point but you can achieve the same > results by using the command: mount -a > > Whichever you choose, afterwards you should be able to access the drive > through /mnt/zip1 > > > Charles
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