Jan Scott wrote:
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?
The answer to this must be within hotplug and / or udev. Since I
really don't use the Zip much, I haven't looked into it myself.
Do you boot up with a disk in the drive? once upon a time I did
this, and it automounted for me (This was probably FC2 though). I tried
it the other day, and the disk was formatted so poorly that it halted my
boot, saying that the device said I could store 250Mb, but that the disk
reported more or less than that.
I guess I'll get to work on that, now that I'm sufficiently bugged!
Let me know if you have any luck!
Scott
