The Zip "partition" is in your case /dev/hdc4. make a directory called /zip, and do a "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip". Your Zip disk's contents will apper in /zip.
Alternatively, you can use the automounter to handle this. JDM -------- Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/ o http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / / _ _ _ _ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.tc.umn.edu/ | ~mich0101 | ...because lockups are for convicts... And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cliud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. -- The Book of Mozilla, 12:10 "One World, One Web, One Program." -- Bill Gates "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." -- Adolph Hitler On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > I would like to access my Zip drive under Linux (2.0.34). When booting, > it seems that it is recognized, as I read something about it being > described as /dev/hdc ide-floppy ATAPI ZIP Drive etc. However, I don't > know how to mount it (how must I define the file system?), and I can't > access it with mtools either. For the latter, I defined it in > /etc/mtools.conf in a similar manner as the normal floppy (which works) > and gave it the letter z: However, when trying to access the Zip drive > with mtools, I get > hdc: hdc4 > init Z: unknown media type > Cannot initialize 'Z:' > The mtools manpage didn't give me any information on how to describe the > media type of a zip; I only saw warnings on not making descriptions of > disk geometry. Additionally, I didn't find a description on how to > install an internal Zip drive (ATAPI), the only hints I got were about > installation on a parallel port or for a SCSI Zip drive, but I don't > have a SCSI board. > Thanks for any solutions, > -- > -------------------------------------------- > Thomas Ruedas > Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, > J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main > Feldbergstrasse 47 D-60323 Frankfurt/Main, Germany > Phone:+49-(0)69-798-24949 Fax:+49-(0)69-798-23280 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ruedas/ > -------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
