Re: Mounting 250mb Zip Drive (Internel)

[Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com>]

Alex Togstad wrote:
> Howdy;
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> I’m trying to mount my Zip drive, but its just not working.
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> I’ve tried:
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> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/zip1/
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> mount /dev/ide/ /mnt/zip1/
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> mount /dev/scsi/ /mnt/zip1/
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> mount /dev/hdb /mnt/zip1/
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> I was looking in the archive and found a few posts, but the ‘hdb4’ dir 
> was not in the dev dir which was recommended by a user to use to mount 
> the zip drive from. Post can be found here 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg02811.html)
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>  It’s just a basic 250mb zip drive which is on the same IDE ribbon cable 
> as the cdrom.
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> Can anyone suggest any ideas?
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> Thank you!
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try using the /dev/sda, usually sda4 for logical partition.
take a look at http://www.linux-usb.org/ for more info.

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/ernst