Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
* Stephen Gran (gashuffer09@home.com) wrote:
> Thus spake Sean Quinlan:
> > * Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> (2001-08-18 01:00):
> > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> > > > * Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > > > 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).
>
> Don't know if this is much help, as mine is a USB connection, but I got it to
> work by enabling mass storage on USB, and also by enabling SCSI emulation for
> the device - you may need to do the same - this may be the origin of the bizarre
> message asking you to use sr0 or sda as your mount point (in fact, sda is the
> mount point I use). Again, I'm not sure how much will translate from USB to IDE,
> but it seems as though SCSI emulation may do it.
It seems to me that you need to have IDE-floppy support for this to
work. From my kernel .config file:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
Sorry, I missed the start of this thread; Shaw's mail server was fsck'd
yesterday. Do you have this?
Cheers,
Mike Pfleger
There's seventy brilliant people on earth.
Where are they hiding?
"Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
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