Zip Drive Anomaly

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:35:53 -0700
begin  "Condon Thomas A KPWA" <tcondon at kpt.nuwc.navy.mil> spewed forth:

> 
> 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.

Run lsmod to see if the appropriate drivers are being loaded:

lsmod should show you:
msdos
fat

If not, load them and try again.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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