On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 08:51 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from akonstam ----- > > Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:47:28 -0600 > From: akonstam > Subject: Re: mounting zip disk > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:42:07PM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > When I put a zip disk in the drive and use the "Mount" command I get > > from the right mouse button applied to the zip disk icon on my KDE > > desktop I get the error message: "mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block > > device. Please check that the disk is entered correctly." > > > > What does this message mean and how can I get this zip disk mounted? (I > > don't care if the solution involves losing data on the zip disk.) > > > > Thanks for the help! > > Jerry > >My experience is that zip drives mount from /dev/sda4 > > Sorry, you are obviously talking about an internal zip drive and I > answered about an external zip drive. > - Is this an internal IDE zip drive? what happens if you do fdisk -l /dev/hdd ? what are the contents of /etc/fstab related to this drive? what is the message you see about recognizing or mounting the drive in /var/log/messages? or dmesg? What is the mount point created for this drive? In FC3 it should be /media/??????
