Re: ZIP drive question (redu).

[kyle forinash <kforinas@ius.edu>]

Hi;

I'm not exactly sure what I did to make this (sort of) work; maybe 
downloading mtools did it (I could not get  iwlcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz 
from Iomega (http://www.iomega.com/software/ ) to work).  Anyway I can 
now mount, see and read data on the zip disk.

However.  When I tried to copy a directory onto the disk it sort of when 
berserk. I can hear it accessing repeatedly for 15 min. I could not kill 
-9 the cp command (!?!) . I finally rebooted to get the disk out. I put 
the disk in a windoz machine: some of the copying seemed to have worked 
but with shortened (8 character upper case) names (I don't know much 
about fat vs other format but this looks like the problem).  I've put 
the disk back into the Linux box and on mount /mnt/zip (no cp command) 
it has gone back into this clicking/access mode. "umount: /mnt/zip: 
device is busy" So ... what now?

kyle

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: ZIP drive question..
> From:
> "Jacob S." <stormspotter@6texans.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:11:08 -0500
> To:
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> To:
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> 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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