Re: mount the iomega zip
On 20 Jun 1999, J.W. Jones wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DYang50492@aol.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 9:36 PM
> Subject: mount the iomega zip
>
>
> > I had trouble mounting the iomega zip. I tried to install module for
> iomega
> > zip drive using modconf and it failed. Can someone help on the procedure
> of
> > mounting zip? what is the device name for zip drive?
> > Thanks
> > Daniel
>
>
> I don't know if this applies to your system, as I have no idea wether or not
> you have an IDE Zip drive, but on my Debian system, from kernel 2.0.31 on I
> have been able to access my zip drive by compiling ATAPI FLOPPY support into
> the kernel. My Zip is listed in the bootstrap as /dev/hdd and to mount a FAT
> FS formatted Zip disk I use:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /dirname
>
> (It seems that zip disks that are still using the original formatting use
> multiple partitions). If you reformat, the multiple partitions go away and
> you can just mount /dev/hdd1. I also have no idea if you have FAT FS support
> built for your kernel, you may need to recompile with the ATAPI FLOPPY and
> FAT and VFAT FS support to get everything to work. I personally haven't
> tried the Iomega drive kernel module, so I have no idea how that works.
>
>
> J.W. Jones
It's /dev/sda1 on my system, using the parallel port. Some people seem to
have problems with modules for this; I'm not using modules and everything
works perfectly.
Anthony
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