Re: Problem with mounting sda zip drive

[Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net>]

On Saturday 16 July 2005 05:59 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
> >  L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >  On 7/13/05, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Dear friends:
> >
> > Thanks to your help, I am making progress step by step. My next issue has
> > to do with my zip drive. When I try to mount it, I am told that I need to
> > supply
> > the file system. Please see below. Would appreciate your help.
>
> First give command as root or using sudo 5 secs after inserting flash
> drive. tail -n 20 /var/log/message
> You will get something like this.(for me in my laptop it is like this)
> Jul 16 16:13:08 localhost kernel: usb 4-1: new high speed USB device
> using address 3
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel:   Vendor: JetFlash  Model:
> TS128MJF2A        Rev: 1.00
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
>         ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost usb.agent[11700]:      usb-storage: loaded
> successfully
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
> usb-storage Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support
> registered. Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000
> 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost scsi.agent[11755]:      sd_mod: loaded
> sucessfully (for disk)
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
> Jul 16 16:13:09 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
> scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> You also find ls -l /dev/sda*
> mount /dev/sda1 -t auto /media/usb0.
> See better http://www.debian-administration.org/topics/Debian/ for usb
> keys.
>
> Now if you have like mine as below
> lvgdell600m:~# ls -l /dev/sda*
> brw-r-----  1 root hal  8, 0 Jul 16 16:13 /dev/sda
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 16 16:13 /dev/sda1
> Then mount as

Dear L. Gandhi:

Thank you for your kind help, but this issue has already been resolved:

#mount /dev/sda4 -t vfat /media/usb0

(Note the "4" in sda4)

Thank you.

Benjamin