[ltp] zip drives
Ricky A. Kendall
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:28:59 -0600
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Iomega is weird in this sense but both Zip disks and Jaz drives use the
4th partition for these kinds of disks by default. If you bring up fdisk
on /dev/hdc it will show you that partition 4 has all the space on the device.
If I want to use either for Linux I delete the partition and add the whole space
back to the first partiton before I make it an ext2 file system. No reason other
than having the lame notion that I could write an autodetecting script somehow
based on the partition number but never got around to that ... :)
Ricky
Neil Smyth wrote:
> 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,
> >
> >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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