Re: Iomega Zip

[Juergen.Nagler@student.uni-ulm.de (Juergen Nagler)]

On 20 Sep 1998 22:57:18 +0200, in list.linux.debian.user you wrote:

>I have an Iomega zip drive that i used in win98, but when i do
>mount /dev/sda /zip -t msdos it won't let me saying it doesn't recognize a
>block device tehre, anyone know the problem?  Perhaps i'm useing the wrong
>dev or there is something else?

Yes, it's the wrong device. You have to use /dev/sda4.
/dev/sda is the whole disk not a partition to mount. On every
preformated ZIP-disk the fourth partition entry is used.

Should solve your problem. A little tip: use "fdisk -l /dev/sda" or
with any other harddisk to see all partitions.

Juergen