On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:57:38AM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote:
I am using Mandrake 9.0 and a Iomega 250, usb zip. The capacity seems to be
limited to around 10MB (I get drive full errors when I try to transfer a 12
MB tar file to an empty diskette) and the drive does not appear when I use
Just in case anyone is interested.
I re-booted (ouch sounds like an OS I used a long time ago) and tried
mounting the zip drive. It failed with the same message about
/dev/sda4 not being a valid block device. So, I decided to try another
zip disk in the drive (these are disks I've had around for
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote:
When I try to mount the zip I get this:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?)
There's your answer, while the port/zip drive were recoginized, the kernel
modules were not loaded.
try the following
insmod
A V Flinsch wrote:
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote:
When I try to mount the zip I get this:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?)
There's your answer, while the port/zip drive were recoginized, the kernel
modules were not loaded.
Ignore this, I found the answer (/etc/sysconfig/usb)
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
A V Flinsch wrote:
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote:
When I try to mount the zip I get this:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?)
There's your
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
do I make sure that insmod is done at boot time? Both usbcore and
usb-uhci were already loaded, it only needed usb-storage to load; is
there a problem with it not knowing that this module needs loading?
Where do I tell it to load at boot time?
Ellick Chan wrote:
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
do I make sure that insmod is done at boot time? Both usbcore and
usb-uhci were already loaded, it only needed usb-storage to load; is
there a problem with it not knowing that this module needs loading?
Where do I tell
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been able to get my zip working under
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 6:14 AM
Subject: [expert] usb zip drive
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been able to get my zip working
I don't know if this is your answer, but when I was VERY NEW in Linux, (
I'm still new, but not as bad! ),
I installed Mandrake 5.2 or 5.3. I had never gotten my zip working and
it was the parallel port version.
One install, I happened to have a formatted zip disk in the drive and
Mdk
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