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Re: ZIP drive question..



On 2004-07-21, Jacob S. penned:
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> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <kforinas@ius.edu>
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>> 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.

It will probably be /dev/hdd4 ... zip drives are weird that way.

-- 
monique



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