>you know, i have this here ide (fat-formatted) zip
>drive installed as a slave to my hard disk, and i know
>i've been able to access it through linux before
>simply by doing a mount, seemingly:
>
> "mount -t umsdos /dev/hdd /mnt/floppy."
>
>anyway, now when i try to mount it, the zip lip
>lights, so i'm pretty sure i have the right device
>(hdd), but then red hat 6.1 tells me:
>
> "mount: wrong fs system type, bad option, bad
>superblock on hda, or too many mounted file systems"
>
>the only thing i can figure is that before when i
>mounted it, the windows i have in another partition on
>the same hard disk was formatted fat, whereas now it's
>formatted ntfs, causing this "superblock" problem
>(whatever a superblock is...)
>
>any ideas?
Can you still read the Zip disk in a Windoze 95/98 machine?
Personally I do not mount Zip disks as the drivers do not fully understand
the idea of long file names.
I use the mtools suite of programs the read/write Zip disks under Linux.
It works with the Zip disk/drive as if it were a floppy disk, just like
Windoze does.
But, you need to tell the program what driver letter you want to use for
the Zip drive. I personally use "Z:". To set yourself up for it, add the
following file for each user:
.mtoolrc
drive z:
file="/dev/hdd4"
Supposidly there is a system default file, but since it is just myself and
root, I didn't do the system one.
Also do the following as root:
chmod 666 /dev/hdd4
If you don't, users won't be able to use mtools to read/write the zip disks.
Now, put in the Zip disk and enter:
mdir z:
You should get a listing.
As for your mount command not working, you forgot the partition number:
mount -t umsdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt/floppy
It would be easier with the following entry in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,uni_xlate,defaults 0 0
I still think you should use mtools instead. It is faster, easier and does
long filenames correctly.
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