Zip Drive Anomaly

[Aaron Grewell]

You may have to use /dev/sdc4 to mount Win-formatted Zips.  If that doesn't 
work, try fdisk -l /dev/sdc and see what it says about the partitions on the 
disk. 

On Monday 29 July 2002 11:35 am, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a 100MB Zip drive on my SuSE8.0 desktop machine connected via a SCSI
> interface.  It works fine when I put in a disk formatted on the Linux
> machine.  But if I put in a disk that was formatted on a Winders machine
> (both Win2K and Win98) it can't mount the disk.  The error message says:
>
> Unable to mount /dev/sdc1 not a block device
>
> I have it set up to "auto" type the file system in my /etc/fstab file. 
> I've tried assigning the file system type to msdos and vfat with no change
> in results.  Since I can mount msdos floppies and vfat hard drives, I don't
> understand what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
>
> Tom  :-})
>
> Thomas A. Condon
> Barbershop Bass Singer
> Registered Linux User #154358
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>
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