Re: Problem with mounting sda zip drive

[Benjamin Sher]

L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 7/13/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear friends: Thanks to your help, I am making progress step by step. My next issue has to do with my zip drive. When I try to mount it, I am told that I need to supply the file system. Please see below. Would appreciate your help. localhost:/home/sher# mount /dev/sda -t auto /media/usb0 ------- here use whether vfat or something else mount: you must specify the filesystem type Dear L.V. Gandhi: Thanks so much for the advice. I am not quite there yet, but we have made some real progress. Please see output below: localhost:/home/sher# mount /dev/sda -t vfat /media/usb0 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,        missing codepage or other error        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try        dmesg | tail  or so Here is the /etc/fstab output: localhost:/home/sher# cd /media/usb0 localhost:/media/usb0# ls localhost:/media/usb0# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0 /dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1 /dev/hdb5       none            swap    sw              0       0 /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide  0       0 /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide  0       0 /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0 /dev/sda        /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0 localhost:/media/usb0# Hope there is a solution. Benjamin