Re: ZIP drive

2003-09-04 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 03:50 pm, Sasa Stupar's voice rose above the ones in my head and stated: [snips] > > I think it's: > > > > modeprobe imm > > mount /dev/sda4 /mnt > > > > Regards. > > It doesn't work. It tells me command not found. I have installed > complete distribution (4,6 gigs)

RE: ZIP drive

2003-09-04 Thread IT
Try ZipTool, available at all fine RPM repositories. Dimitri -Original Message- From: Sasa Stupar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 09:37 To: redhat-list Subject: ZIP drive HI! How do I access to the IOMEGA ZIP drive which is connected to the parallel port

Re: ZIP drive

2003-09-03 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:50:23PM +0200, Sasa Stupar wrote: > Alfredo Cole wrote: > >El Miércoles, 3 de Septiembre de 2003 07:37, Sasa Stupar escribió: > > > >>HI! > >> > >>How do I access to the IOMEGA ZIP drive which is connected to the > >>parallel port on RH8? > >> > >>Sasa > > > > > >I think

Re: ZIP drive

2003-09-03 Thread Sasa Stupar
Alfredo Cole wrote: El Miércoles, 3 de Septiembre de 2003 07:37, Sasa Stupar escribió: HI! How do I access to the IOMEGA ZIP drive which is connected to the parallel port on RH8? Sasa I think it's: modeprobe imm mount /dev/sda4 /mnt Regards. It doesn't work. It tells me command not found. I h

Re: ZIP drive

2003-09-03 Thread Alfredo Cole
El Miércoles, 3 de Septiembre de 2003 07:37, Sasa Stupar escribió: > HI! > > How do I access to the IOMEGA ZIP drive which is connected to the > parallel port on RH8? > > Sasa I think it's: modeprobe imm mount /dev/sda4 /mnt Regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com http://www.clshondura

Re: ZIP drive mounting and Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Edward Dekkers
> What do I need to do in fstab to automount my zip disk, and what do I need > to do to get insmod ppa to run at boot up? The nicest way is in /etc/modules.conf and it will be something like 'alias parport ppa'. Someone with a zip drive will correct me as I know that's not exactly right. In the

Re: Zip Drive - the endless question

2000-02-19 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Woops, Sorry wrong person please ignore. Eddie - Original Message - From: Eddie Strohmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Zip Drive - the endless question > What time and what day did this happen las

Re: Zip Drive - the endless question

2000-02-19 Thread Eddie Strohmier
What time and what day did this happen last?? Eddie - Original Message - From: Bill Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 8:43 AM Subject: Zip Drive - the endless question > I cannot mount my internal Iomega ZIP drive under Linux Redhat 6

Re: Zip Drive - the endless question

2000-02-19 Thread linda hanigan
- Original Message - .> I've tried every permutation of mount I can think of. Some I've tried > include: > .> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/iomega > . unless this is a typo you are missing a space between vfat and /dev/hdd4 Linda -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Zip Drive - the endless question

2000-02-19 Thread Jason Pratt
Try /dev/hdc4 and make sure you have a directory called "iomega" in your mnt directory. AFWIW, I can't get auto to work on mine either.. wish it did! Hope this helps.. Jason Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, Februar

Re: Zip Drive problems...

2000-02-11 Thread Juan Sanchez
In my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file I put the following: /sbin/insmod parport /sbin/insmod ppa and it works fine for my zip 100 (not plus) running redhat 6.0. I found this somewhere on the web. Check the Zip Drive mini-HOWTO. Good luck, Juan I am running RH6.1 and am trying to get my Parallel Port Zi

Re: Zip drive and long filenames

1998-05-21 Thread John Ohrt
Thanks for your help. -- John Ohrt *** Toronto, ON, Canada *** mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Zip drive and long filenames

1998-05-21 Thread Abdullah Al-Molah
At 02:16 PM 5/21/98 -0700, you wrote: >I have a Zip drive running fine under Linux with the FAT format. > >Is there some way to format a zip cartridge so that long filenames can >be used under Linux? > >-- >John Ohrt *** Toronto, ON, Canada *** mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- > PLEASE read the

Re: Zip drive and long filenames

1998-05-21 Thread Gene Wilburn
No special formatting required. Just mount as vfat. Gene On Thu, 21 May 1998, John Ohrt wrote: > I have a Zip drive running fine under Linux with the FAT format. > > Is there some way to format a zip cartridge so that long filenames can > be used under Linux? > > -- > John Ohrt *** Toronto,

Re: Zip drive and long filenames

1998-05-21 Thread Vidiot
>I have a Zip drive running fine under Linux with the FAT format. Therein lies the clue. >Is there some way to format a zip cartridge so that long filenames can >be used under Linux? Ya, tell the mount program to use VFAT, not FAT, if you want to be able to transfer files between Linux and Mess

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Edwards
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Rick Forrester wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >I too, have fallen victim to this problem--twice! The first time it > > >happened, I had never heard of the problem and I kept re-trying with > > . > > > As mentioned before people have noticed filthy carts. I l

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

1998-04-21 Thread Greg Fall
In a lab here at the U of Michigan a bunch of internals were installed a while back, and I assumed it was the heavy use that made a handful of them start clicking after a few months. I've got my fingers crossed, hoping mine will survive... --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

1998-04-21 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >I too, have fallen victim to this problem--twice! The first time it > >happened, I had never heard of the problem and I kept re-trying with > . > As mentioned before people have noticed filthy carts. I lost a CD > drive to dust pulled through it by the cooling

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

1998-04-21 Thread Ben B.
>I too, have fallen victim to this problem--twice! The first time it >happened, I had never heard of the problem and I kept re-trying with . As mentioned before people have noticed filthy carts. I lost a CD drive to dust pulled through it by the cooling fans. This is just an idea as to why

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> How do I go about changing the format from ignore to vfat or msdos? fstool? You should also learn to use an editor, such as pico or vi. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

1998-04-16 Thread Mike Edwards
I too, have fallen victim to this problem--twice! The first time it happened, I had never heard of the problem and I kept re-trying with different disks (it's an internal drive in a non-portable PC, so I don't think moving the drive around was aproblem in my case). I ended up hosing three or fou

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Chuck Carson
to Mount a zip with vfat I do this: (I have a directory at the root level called /zip) mount -t vfat /dev/sdc4 /zip To mount as msdos mount -t msdos /dev/sdc4 /zip Add an entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount it at boot time. -Original Message- From: Vance Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: zip drive/Click of Death

1998-04-16 Thread Ed Jaeger
Iomega replaced one of my drives for the "click of death" problem at no charge. The symptom: When a disk is inserted the drive repeatedly seeks to the head's physical limits, creating a mechanical clicking sound which repeats at about a 5 second interval. Usually the disk cannot be read. Inser

RE: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread KThorpe
>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:41:23 +1000 (EST) >From: Db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: re: zip drive > > Anyone know what this bloke was on about with this 'click of death' >thing, regarding iomega zip drives? The only dead zip carts I've seen so far have

Re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Another thing I wanted to ask about zip_drives...I got > 'attacked' by this person on #linux the other night, babbling > something about how I was DOOMED because I used the zip-drivehe > referencing something called "the click of death". He wouldn't hear

Re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Anyone know what this bloke was on about with this 'click of > > death' thing, regarding iomega zip drives? > I don't know a whole lot about it, but apparently sometimes when a > zip cart is put in the drive, the drive itself will make some > particular clikcing n

re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Robert Fausey
At 06:41 PM 12/16/97 +1000, you wrote: > Anyone know what this bloke was on about with this 'click of death' >thing, regarding iomega zip drives? >From an article in alt.iomega.zip.jazz. "Click of death" strikes Iomega By Paul Festa January 30, 1998, 5:15 p.m. PT update Users of Iomega's Zip

re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Anyone know what this bloke was on about with this 'click of death' > thing, regarding iomega zip drives? I don't know a whole lot about it, but apparently sometimes when a zip cart is put in the drive, the drive itself will make some particular clikcing noises, and render that cart totally u

re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Db
It should be pointed out, there isn't actually a need for the originator of this thread to actually go out and and format his zip_cart in ext2. He could just mount it with whatever filesystem the media is formatted in currently...in his case, msdos. I do this...I have (I think) 28 zip_carts, and

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Vidiot
>> I am trying to access my Zip drive in Linux. I run fstool under my >> Xserver and I see the device but its file type is ignore. Is there any >> way of mounting this device? What do I need to change to mount it? Any >> help would be appreciated. > >Change it to type "msdos" or "vfat" for win

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Vance Bell wrote: > How do I go about changing the format from ignore to vfat or msdos? >From the shell or from an xterm, type: cd /etc emacs fstab Make your changes and save it (ctrl-s) and exit (ctrl-c). Then you cna mount the drive. You can also choose to edit from the FS t

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> I am trying to access my Zip drive in Linux. I run fstool under my > Xserver and I see the device but its file type is ignore. Is there any > way of mounting this device? What do I need to change to mount it? Any > help would be appreciated. Change it to type "msdos" or "vfat" for win95-ba