Re: zip drive?

[Jeff Maxson <jbmaxson@surfglobal.net>]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Ari Pollak wrote:

> An IDE zip drive acts more like a hard drive than a floppy drive; It
> follows the same drive scheme as IDE cdroms or hard drives - e.g.
> Primary master drive is /dev/hda, secondary master is /dev/hdc..
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:21:12PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote:
> >
> > quick one: does a zip disk count as a hard drive, or a floppy?  I am still
> > pretty new at this, and would like to know how to mount it (it's an
> > internal IDE).

Thanks.  However, sticking my disk in, and doing a

mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /zip

gets me

hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its capacity
 hdd: hdd4
mount: mount point /zip does not exist

any more help?  Thanks,

Jeff