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Re: ZIP drive question..



On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500
"Forinash, Kyle" <kforinas@ius.edu> wrote:

> Hi;
>  
> I'm having a problem mounting a 250Mb internal zip.
> a.    dmesg shows me hdd:IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI FLOPPY
                       ^^^
> b.    standard mount procedures (edit '/dev/sda4  /mnt/zip auto
> user,noauto 0 0' into /etc/fstab followed by  mount /mnt/zip) gives:
> "the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe
> 'insmod driver'?)"

The dmesg output you pasted above shows the zip drive on hdd. As
root try running "mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip". If that works, you'll need
to change the sda4 in your fstab entry to hdd.

If that doesn't work, you may want to run "fdisk /dev/hdd" as root to
see if the disk is partitioned weird and then add the appropriate
partition number to your mount command/fstab entry (hdd1, hdd2, etc.).

> I'm new to Debian (having just switched from Red Hat), this is a new
> install of Woody. An earlier message mentioned something about a ppa
> module but I can find no ref anywhere to that.

If dmesg is showing that it's already been setup on /dev/hdd, you
shouldn't need to load any more modules... except maybe fat or vfat, but
that would be a totally different error from what you pasted above.

HTH & HAND,
Jacob

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