[ltp] zip drives

[Joachim F. Selinger]

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Hi Neil,

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:16:08 -0500, Neil Smyth wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting access to a zip100 drive 
>in the expansion slot? I have a thinkpad600, running Redhat 6.1. The zip 
>drive gets detected ok on booting as hdc, but I cannot mount it, getting 
>errors about the physical geometry being zero. Any thoughts? Is this 
>similar to the problem that occurred with the latest bios not being able to 
>get the hda geometry (which I also ran into before subscribing to this 
>list), and if so is there a similar way around it (e.g.hdc=...)?
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>nsmyth::/root 4% mount -t vfat -o debug /dev/hdc /mnt/zip/
>ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
>ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
>hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
>mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

I'm not sure if this helps as I have not tried it myself, but consider 
mounting /dev/hdc4 and not the raw disk, as ZIP disks are formatted like
FAT hard drives and use by default partition 4 in the Linux way of 
numbering them. Let me know if this worked!

Good luck
Jocki

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