Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> * Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
> > so please cc me on replies.
>
> Done, I'd suggest sending all replies to this mail to the list as well as myself,
> as you'll reach a much larger audience :)
Definitely. :-)
> > 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.
>
> I presume from the above that your zip drive is connected to the
> second channel of your second IDE controller?
>
> Are you able to mount any zip250 disks? If so, do you use the same
> mount command?
Yes, haven't tried, and probably, in that order.
> You could try "cfdisk /dev/hdd" to see the partitions, maybe this disk
> doesn't have /dev/hdd4 as its partition. By default, the 4th
> partition is used (anyone know why that is?), but maybe its been
> repartitioned or something.
Good idea:
[~]# cfdisk -Ps /dev/hdd
Partition Table for /dev/hdd
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
4 Primary 0 196607 32 196608 FAT16 (06) Boot (80)
[~]#
I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active partition.
> There is an option for specifying a block size when mounting, you
> could try the option "blocksize=1024". Your mount command would look
> like this:
>
> mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point
I tried this just now, still no joy. I am seeing something with hdd4 that
I don't see with any other device name, however, regardless of mount options:
[~]# mount .... /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd4,
or too many mounted file systems
-> (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
-> ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
[~]#
There's nothing special about this IDE controller, it's just an onboard
controller from a plain Dell mobo. I tried sr0 and sda, they failed
(not surprisingly).
> > 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.
>
> Are you using the exact same kernel (ie. copied the kernel from the
> Redhat /boot to the Debian /boot), or are you using the same kernel
> revision, but you went through the menuconfig or xconfig seperately.
No but no. :-) I kept the .config file resulting from the kernel build
with me, to seed the configuration. So it's not the same image file,
but it is the same configuration.
> If so, you might want to check the Zip-Drive mini-howto (should be under
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini), and make sure that you have all the
> relevant kernel options for IDE zip drives (I have a SCSI zip myself,
> so Linux just treats it as another fixed disk).
I think I do, but I'll check tonight.
Thanks,
Phil
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new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance
which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
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