Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users
Thus spake John Manko (jmanko@monkeynet.org):
> I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to
> Debian
> to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
>
> I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on.
>
> However, after the "conversion", I couldnt mount the zip under debian,
> and it was killing me.
> Until I took a very close look at dmesg....
>
> # dmesg | more
>
> <clip>
>
> hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
> hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> Partition check:
> hdd: hdd4
>
> <clip>
>
> Do you notice that the zip (hdd) drive is actually partitioned (hdd4)?
> so, instead of mounting
>
> # mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip -t vfat
>
> I have to
>
> # mount /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip -t vfat
>
> It took me a while to realize this, and quite a pain in the ass.....
Hmmm, this is strange. I've been using a Zip drive for several years,
attached to a SCSI adapter, through various flavours of Mandrake (OK,
I've seen the error of my ways) and *always* had to mount it as
/dev/sda4.
The reason it's partition 4 is apparently to do with Mac
compatibility.
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