[ltp] Setting up a Zip 250 USB

[Jim Hughes]

I have a question that hopefully someone can answer,

I have a external USB ZIp 250 that I am having a problem with.  I am running 
RH9 on a i series Thinkpad.  I am also using a USB visor cradle for my visor 
Neo.  The problem is that at first both my Zip drive and cradle worked 
together fine.  I then tried to make a script to run so that it would backup 
my email files.  The commands that I put in was to first mount the zip drive, 
then to copy the files over and finally unmount the drive.

Somewhere in that I messed up the files /dev/sda4 so I thought that I could 
delete it and just copy another similar named file over and be ok.  Wrong!  
Now when I try to mount it, it says either one of two messages:  Either it 
says that it could not mount the file system due to it not knowing what kind 
it was or that only root can mount the drive.  

I hope that someone out there can help me out, I am in desprite need to get 
this fixed since my Thinkpad does not have a floppy drive and I need a way to 
back up my files.

Thanks,

Jim