[olug] mounting my zip drive

[Eric Penne]

what is the purpose of having it on partition 4?  or maybe why does it
default to partition 4?

My usb zip comes up as sda4.

Eric

--- Brian Roberson <brian at bstc.net> wrote:
> on pre-formated zip disks, the format is fat16, on partition 4, eg.
> try
> "mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip"
> 
> if you intend on using the zip under dos/win as well, you will need
> to leave
> that format alone, and linux complains about the partition sizes if I
> remember correctly, if you are only using it under linux, repartition
> it and
> make a new filesytem on it ( fdisk /dev/hdc && make it the way you
> want it ;
> mke2fs /dev/hd{partition#} )
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vincent" <vraffensberger at home.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] mounting my zip drive
> 
> 
> > Are you able to partition or format it?  Try   cfdisk /dev/hdc  and
> see
> > what it tells you about it.
> > The disk may be pre formatted for dos.  Is so, try mount -t vfat
> > /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
> >
> > mesc wrote:
> > >
> > > After reinstalling linux (not related to not being able to my zip
> > > drive)I read the url that jason replied to me and tried what it
> > > suggested but no luck yet.If it helps here's what I get when I
> run the
> > > mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip command with the scsi modules loaded (for
> scsi
> > > emulation for my  cd-rw drive>>/dev/hdc: Input/output error
> > >                                                              
> mount: you
> must specify the filesystem type......and here's
> > > what I get with the scsi modules unloaded>>mount: you must
> specify the
> > > filesystem type......so when I specify the type like so>> mount
> -t  ext2
> > > /dev/hdc /mnt/zip....I get>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> > > superblock on /dev/hdc,
> > >                                                 or too many
> mounted file
> > > systems
> > >
> > > This  has me good.Does anyone have a url that might help me?
> > >
> > >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> > >
> > >
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