On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:06:25 -0700 Scott Talbot <talbotscott@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > here is my result: [net@pietro ~]$ sudo /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 [net@pietro ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/zip [net@pietro ~]$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist [net@pietro ~]$ Must be some other problem than yours. thx Henk
