I have a iomega 250 zip drive. These are lines from my messages file: added mount point /media/floppy for /dev/fd0 *** added mount point /media/zip for /dev/hdd4 added mount point /media/cdrecorder for /dev/hdc added mount point /media/cdrom for /dev/hdb With a zip disk in the drive, I use the command: 'mount /dev/hdd /media/zip' to access my zip drive If I use a similar command to what you used: 'mount /dev/hdd4 /media/zip' it doesn't work and I get the same error message. Try 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/zip' On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:49 +0200, H.Breimer wrote: > 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 >
