Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
:~random try this: :~insmod parport :~insmod ppa :~mount -t filesystemtypehere /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip it is sda4, i am afraid. Denis
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
random try this: insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t filesystemtypehere /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip filesystemtypehere for dos put vfat for linux put ext2 happy joy joy Dave On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Vic wrote: Is this a brand new disk? If so you should format it as such: mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4 then try to mount it Thanks for your mail! It is a disk formatted vfat. Another guy was putting some stuff on in using Mandrake as well. Therefore the prolbem cannot be the disk by itself... Best regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less. -- "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, pt. I 1680
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
Here's a couple of things you can try. fdisk /dev/sda now hit p to "print" to screen the partition table. Preformatted zip disks come from the factory with a primary fat partition of 4, hence /dev/sda4. However, now that we know a little history of the disk we can see that the previous owner HAD to change to partition table on the disk and then reformat it. Since it was done with linux he may have put the partition number to anything he had a fancy to, and then formatted it to anything he wanted to. Ext2 comes to mind... Once you figure out which partition he changed it to, try: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip Change the 1 for whatever you saw it was in fdisk. If this doesn't work, use the -t and try it with ext2,vfat,msdos etc. Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Vic wrote: I wonder, why does the zip drive on Linux use sda4 rather than sda1? Neither sda4 nor sda1 is working for me. sda4 is what Mandrake was writing into fstab by installing the system. I noticed that a mac using "pcexchange" formatted it to sda1. What does a Windows box format a zip disk to? My zip was formatted originally with a Mac. But this is not the problem. Someone already was writing on it using Mandrake. Still the question: How can I mount my SCSI Zip? Thanks again for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
Clausbut that is the problem. The factory-formatted (the way you get them out of the retail package) discs are formatted as partition 4, if you re-format after getting the disc out of the package then it is no longer formatted as partition 4. Alan Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Vic wrote: Is this a brand new disk? If so you should format it as such: mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4 then try to mount it Thanks for your mail! It is a disk formatted vfat. Another guy was putting some stuff on in using Mandrake as well. Therefore the prolbem cannot be the disk by itself... Best regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
[newbie] cannot mount ZIP
I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus.
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus. Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... Lance
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
I ran into a small problem like this before... try running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i was swaping out devices alot.. Dave Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus. Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... Lance -- "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, pt. I 1680
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
I wonder, why does the zip drive on Linux use sda4 rather than sda1? I noticed that a mac using "pcexchange" formatted it to sda1. What does a Windows box format a zip disk to? Sorry I fell out of windows (hehe pun intended). Actually I did not have a zip drive back then. On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, David Schur mewed: I ran into a small problem like this before... try running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i was swaping out devices alot.. Dave Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus. Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... Lance -- "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, pt. I 1680
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Vic wrote: I wonder, why does the zip drive on Linux use sda4 rather than sda1? Neither sda4 nor sda1 is working for me. sda4 is what Mandrake was writing into fstab by installing the system. I noticed that a mac using "pcexchange" formatted it to sda1. What does a Windows box format a zip disk to? My zip was formatted originally with a Mac. But this is not the problem. Someone already was writing on it using Mandrake. Still the question: How can I mount my SCSI Zip? Thanks again for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lance Borden wrote: Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. /dev/zip is just a symbolic link to /dev/sda4. This link was created by Mandrake by installing the system. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? You are right of course! I just typed it wrong. This is what happens: *** [root@thor working]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4, or too many mounted file systems *** Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... I'm not sure, but it seems that it does not affect it. What should I do in order to get my Zip working?? Again, thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
sda1 does not work either. :-( Here is what Linux is telling me: * [root@thor working]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems * My kernel does support vfat. I can mount fd0 with -t vfat... What is wrong??? On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Schur wrote: I ran into a small problem like this before... try running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i was swaping out devices alot.. Dave Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus. Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... Lance
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
Did you try sda2 or 3? Sorry thats all I can think of at the moment. I'm gonna go get a soda but will be back on here. On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Claus Atzenbeck mewed: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Vic wrote: I wonder, why does the zip drive on Linux use sda4 rather than sda1? Neither sda4 nor sda1 is working for me. sda4 is what Mandrake was writing into fstab by installing the system. I noticed that a mac using "pcexchange" formatted it to sda1. What does a Windows box format a zip disk to? My zip was formatted originally with a Mac. But this is not the problem. Someone already was writing on it using Mandrake. Still the question: How can I mount my SCSI Zip? Thanks again for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP
Is this a brand new disk? If so you should format it as such: mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4 then try to mount it On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Claus Atzenbeck mewed: sda1 does not work either. :-( Here is what Linux is telling me: * [root@thor working]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems * My kernel does support vfat. I can mount fd0 with -t vfat... What is wrong??? On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Schur wrote: I ran into a small problem like this before... try running the mount -t vfat .. etc etc but instead of sda4 use sda1. it may work for some reason. i had to do this when i was swaping out devices alot.. Dave Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I did a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, but I cannot mount my SCSI Zip drive. This is the alias in /dev: /dev/zip - sda4 Here one line of fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0 This is what happens: [root@thor /root]# mount /mnt/zip /dev/zip: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@thor /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/zip /mnt/zip mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip, or too many mounted file systems I would appreciate any help... Thanks a lot!! Regards, Claus. Claus, I'm not really sure, but since nobody else has had an answer yet, I'll give it a shot. Does your alias mean that you can replace '/dev/sda4' with '/dev/zip'? I figure that's what you mean. In your first example, shouldn't that be reversed? That is, isn't the command #mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip? Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does. Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference... Lance
