On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:07:53PM -0500, Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Really simple thing to look at. If this isn't it, I'm sure there's better
> > people here to help you out.
> >
> > /mnt/zip100.0 seems like a weird dir name. Does that actually exist? I have
> > /mnt/zip, but that's 6.2 and not USB so it may be different.
> >
> > Do you get any error messages? /var/log/messages?
>
> You can call the mount point anything you want. If the user want's to type
> mount /mnt/zip100.0, well ok then. I perfer mount /mnt/zip or mount
> /girlfriend myself (Oddly enough, my girlfriend did find that amusing...no
> stop thinking like that. I was backing up her computer....ok...enough of my
> personal life.)
>
> So some things to check:
> modprobe usb-storage
> lsmod should show
> usb-uhci, usbcore, and usb-starage
>
> Ignore the GUI. You need to see error messages.
> type mount /mnt/zip100.0
>
> They try (as root) mount -t vfat /dev/sdd4 /mnt/zip100.0
^^^^
That looks odd to me (but I don't have a zip drive).
1. Why is mapped as the fourth disk. (I know why sdd instead of hdd). Do you
really have three other SCSI devices?
2. Why the fourth partition? Can zip disks be partitioned? Or is because some
funky compatibility issue?
florin
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