[ltp] zip drives

[Neil Smyth]

Thanks Jocki, that did it! I had tried a few other mount points (hdc1, hdc2 
in particular), but using hdc4 did not occur to me. I stopped short of 
trying every possible mount point as it seemed to me that there *must* be 
an easier way to find the correct mount points for devices (for example how 
id you know ZIP disks use default partition 4?). Anything along these lines 
available, or should I just wait for devfs assuming it makes it into 2.4?

Regards,

Neil

At 01:25 PM 3/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
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>Hi Neil,
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>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=...)?
> >==============================================
> >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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