I think you may have missed his statement that the same media mounts different in two different drives. Jamin W. Collins -----Original Message----- From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SOLVED?] 250 MB Zip drive reads 100MB disks but not 250MB disks On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:16:52AM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: > > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:28:21 -0500 (EST) > > Just got a new computer for a consulting job I'm doing. Installed > > RedHat 6.2 and all errata and then tested the 250 MB zip drive (yes, > > it does say 250 on the front). It won't read 250MB zip disks, but > > reads 100 MB zip disks. I've got another computer with the same > > hardware and Linux setup that reads 250 MB zip disks fine (same > > disks). So I'm assuing it's a hardware problem and am going to ask > > them to swap it out for a different one. > > Anyone else seen this before (before I look stupid when I take it back > > and they put it in a Windows machine and tell me it works fine :-)? > > Thanks, > > Dave > I didn't receive any replies, but after trying a number of things, I > found that a 250 MB zip mounts on the new machine at: > /dev/hdd > but on the older machine, it mounts at: > /dev/hdd4 > I thought all zip disks mounted on partition 4. It appears to work > fine. Any ideas why? The company claims it's the same model of zip > drive. That would be your media, not the drive. /dev/hdd4 is partition 4 on IDE drive "d" (secondary controller, slave drive). /dev/hdd is the entire drive. 100Meg zip drives (I don't have any 250's) come preformated and partitioned like that. I routinely blow away the partition table and simply do a mke2fs on /dev/hdd and turn the whole drive into one big file system. Then it mounts at /dev/hdd and NOT at /dev/hdd4 as well (and it's a few hundred K bigger). Sounds to me like the 250 Meg drives are coming out preformated with no partition table and you are expected to use the entire drive like a floppy instead of like a removable hard drive like the default formating on the 100 Meg drives. > Thanks, > Dave Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Mad Wizard) | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
