Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
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On Friday 17 August 2001 17:38, Phil Edwards wrote:
> I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
> so please cc me on replies.
>
> Quick version: after perusing the archives of this list, I found my
> ZIP-250 drive (hdd) and tried mounting a plain ZIP-100 disk with 'mount
> -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point'. I got the 'bad superblock, no such fs,
> or something else' error message that others have reported.
>
> Yes, the vfat module is loaded. Yes, there is a working filesystem on the
> disk (Windows shows the little "50ways.exe" file as well). Same problem
> with other related filesystem types (dos, msdos, fat, etc).
>
> I've just switched from RH to Debian. This worked automatically under RH,
> using a /dev/zip device. Unfortunately, I no longer have that partition,
> so I can't see what /dev/zip really was. KDE2 wants /dev/zip to be
> there for mounting, but I don't know what to use for a target if I make
> a /dev/zip symlink.
>
>
> One other thing. /var/log/messages shows
>
> kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> kernel: hdd: hdd4
> kernel: hdd: hdd4
> kernel: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
> 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] kernel:
> [me=0x6d,cs=768,#f=32,fs=37632,fl=423504,ds=13786368,de=8237,
> data=13786896,se=28489,ts=1869182049,ls=8293,rc=0,fc=4294967295] kernel:
> Transaction block size = 512
> kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:40.
> kernel: hdd:<5>ll_rw_block: device 16:40: only 512-char blocks
> implemented (1024) kernel: unable to read partition table
>
> which suggests that if 1K blocks were implemented, this would Just Work...?
> That can't be the right conclusion -- I was running the same 2.2.19 kernel
> under RH7 that I'm running now under Debian, built from stock sources.
>
>
> Any ideas?
> Phil
Hi,
you must enable in your kernel:
parport, low level scsi,
scsi emulation AND then
the imm driver.
I'm using progeny now but I *think* I
remember potato had all this enabled by
default.
Use modconf to activate this modules.
This program will show you every compiled
module. If it doesn't show there you
must recompile and reinstall the kernel.
HTH, ;-)
Saludos :-)
- --
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Federico Silva
Software Developer.
(Using Debian Gnu/Linux and KDE )
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