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Re: kernel need to be reconfigured for Zip drive ?



On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 15:01, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
> Hello, I just bought a Zip 100 IDE drive.  I am running kernel 2.4.19
> with scsi emulation support for cdrom.  Just wondering if I need to turn
> on any options to have it support the Zip drive.  
> 
> dmesg says the zip is under hdd  ,  I tried mount -t vfat  -l /dev/hdd4
> and mount -t vfat  -l /dev/hdd  have these messages 
> 
> w"rong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
>        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?)"
> 
> in dmseg, my cdrw is under hdc but it is actually scd0.  So could the
> zip drive has some other names under /dev ?  

You shouldn't need to recompile anything. Just try:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip

substituting /mnt/zip for wherever you want to mount it of course. The 4
is the important part.

-Alex

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