On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:56 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote: > H.Breimer wrote: > > >Last month on FC3 I made my updates on a zip-drive that has always > >worked. > >Now, moved over to FC4, no luck. > > > >"Unable to mount the selected volume. > > > > mount could not determine the > > filesystem type, and none was specified" > > > >lspci, lshal, fstab, udev and nautilus show signs of recognizing my > >IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI. > > > >google did not help. For bugzilla I would not know where to look. > > > >Hint anyone? > >thx Henk > > > > > > > You have not said what you're trying. i.e. are you trying to mount > from within the computer:/// in Nautilus or from the command line? > I am also having trouble mounting from Nautilus, but I can mount using : > mount /dev/hdb4 /media/zip > > Try this: With a disk in the Zip drive: > sudo /sbin/fdisk -l # use su if you have not set up sudoers file for > yourself > > You should get a list of all ATA and scsi disks/partitions. Find your > Zip on this list and note which partitions are available. Then mount > that partition. IOMEGA Zip format tools default to 1 partition number > 4, but if you have a disk formatted by Linux or windows or whatever, it > may not be formatted that way. Once you know what partition and dev you > could mount it manually or edit your /etc/fstab to make it work. > > Scott > Thanks to these hints I was able to mount my zip drive. I use fedora core 4. I did the following: I looked into the /dev folder and found a device hdb As root I did /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb I got: [root@localhost Jan]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb4 * 1 96 98288 6 FAT16 then mkdir /mnt/zip Then finally [root@localhost Jan]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip I could start reading /mnt/zip. Jan PS What to do for automounting this at boot?
