>I've been through the Zip HOWTO forward and backwards and can't mount my
>Zip drive.
>
>I have an internal IDE/Atapi 100MB Zip drive. Physically, it's the
>slave drive on the 2nd IDE channel. During boot, it's detected as a
>Zip/IDE/floppy on /dev/hdd. There are no SCSI drives detected.
>
>Whenever I attempt to mount it, the error message says wrong filesystem
>type.
>
>I've tried these variations...
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /Zip
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /Zip
>mount -t msdos /dev/hdd /Zip
>mount -t msdos /dev/hdd1 /Zip
>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd5 /Zip <--says not an extended drive.
You forgot one: hdd4.
I have the following in my fstab:
/dev/hdc1 /zip ext2 noauto,user,defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc4 /dos/zip vfat noauto,user,uni_xlate,defaults 0 0
Replace hdc with hdd and you are all set.
Besides, the best way to get at a DOS ZIP disk is to use the mtools suite
of programs. No disk mounting necessary. Use the drive as if it were a
floppy disk, but only bigger. Also, the mounted support for file names
is a little off. If I want to name a file, doit.exe, it will only be placed
on the disk as DOIT.EXE. But, if you use MTOOLS, it will use long filename
support if the name you give the file is not strictly 8.3 and all caps.
Look at mtools, you'll love it.
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