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| 13874 | 2001-06-09 05:41:00 | I run Linux Suse 7.00. I have a 100mb atapi zip drive as the slave drive on thesecondary IDE port - there are CDrom/writers on /hdb and /hdc. When I try to mount the zip drive I get a an error message saying I must specify a file system type. I have 'auto' as the type but I've tried vfat and msdos with identical results.The system checks the driove before giving the error message, and if there's no disk in it gives a different error. My etc/fstab line reads /dev/zip /zip auto noauto,user 0 0 Any ideas anyone? |
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| 13875 | 2001-06-09 07:39:00 | What is /dev/zip? Is it a symbolic link? If so, make sure that it is linked to /dev/hdd4 (you must always mount the fourth partition of a zip disk). It might also help if you went into your /var/log/messages file and found the bit during the bootup process where it tells you that it's found the zip drive. Post it here, and it might help diagnose the problem. If you can't find anything in your messages file, then you obviously have not compiled the support into your kernel correctly. Remember, there are usually several options that you need to specify when your configure your kernel, so make sure that you read the Zip Howto carefully. |
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