Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-20 Thread Jesus Arocho
How can I disable it at boot time? In lilo.conf by removing the append line? I do not want to make it worse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-19 Thread Jesus Arocho
Yes, I did: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip, both as user and as root. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-19 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 19:13, you wrote: Yes, I did: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip, both as user and as root. IIRC you stated that the disk worked in another disk drive. Does the drive work on another machine? Do any disks work in the drive you are having a problem with? Can you get a

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-19 Thread Jesus Arocho
This is most confusing. While reading about devsf on a website I found that the terms /dev/sda1...4 are legacy designations and that they would be links to the actual devfs node. Since I had created the node with mknod I went back to try to figure out the link issue. Lo and behold when I

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-19 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:17, Jesus Arocho wrote: This is most confusing. While reading about devsf on a website I found that the terms /dev/sda1...4 are legacy designations and that they would be links to the actual devfs node. Since I had created the node with mknod I went back to try to

[expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Jesus Arocho
Hello. I am still having problems getting Mandrake 8.1 to access the zip drive. After several weeks of checking I beleive that the system does not return the proper block info for mknod. (I have done the usual checks of fstab). Where can I find a list of major and minor numbers for mknod?

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On 8.1 the devfs makes thangs a little different. is the zip drive USB? ide? scsi? On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:50, you wrote: Hello. I am still having problems getting Mandrake 8.1 to access the zip drive. After several weeks of checking I beleive that the system does not return the

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Jesus Arocho
It is a USB drive. If I give the mount command, it returns an error message indicating it cannot identify the file type. On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 15:18, Ed Tharp wrote: On 8.1 the devfs makes thangs a little different. is the zip drive USB? ide? scsi? On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:50, you

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
might be an fstab error? or is it not finding the drive at all through USB? do you boot thru LILO? is the append statement in lilo.conf devfs mount? or nomount? is the drive mounting? On Tuesday 18 December 2001 19:55, you wrote: It is a USB drive. If I give the mount command, it returns

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Jesus Arocho
Some additional info. There is a zipdisk in the drive when I boot the machine. The disk is a regular iomega formatted disk. If I issue the command: mount /mnt/zip, the drive spins and the activity light flashes and I get the unknown file system error message. Fstab is set for auto and

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 20:09, you wrote: Some additional info. There is a zipdisk in the drive when I boot the machine. The disk is a regular iomega formatted disk. If I issue the command: mount /mnt/zip, the drive spins and the activity light flashes and I get the unknown file system

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
hwmmm,,, was the disk formated? in winder$ On Tuesday 18 December 2001 20:09, you wrote: Some additional info. There is a zipdisk in the drive when I boot the machine. The disk is a regular iomega formatted disk. If I issue the command: mount /mnt/zip, the drive spins and the activity

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Jesus Arocho
Modprobe vfat, then mount; gives: mount you must specify the filesystem type On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 20:42, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2001 20:09, you wrote: Some additional info. There is a zipdisk in the drive when I boot the machine. The disk is a regular iomega formatted

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Jesus Arocho
The disk was used as received from iomega in a windows machine and then used on my Linux box. It works ok if I use a parallel port zip (but I gave that one to my 8 year old) together with a Linux box! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 20:42, A V Flinsch wrote: Do you have all of the correct file modules loaded? modprobe vfat then try mounting the disk. On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:11, Jesus Arocho wrote: Modprobe vfat, then mount; gives: mount you must specify the filesystem type Did you try