[TriLUG] Re: Mounting zip100.0

[Robert Heinich]

Jim,

Ensure that your parallel port Zip drive is connected, the power to it is
on, and media in the drive.

As root, enter the following
   insmod parport
   insmod scsi_mod
   insmod ppa

Now cd to /proc/scsi

You should see two entries
* directory ppa
* file scsi

cat scsi and you should see if your system recognizes the zip drive.

If your system can see the drive, you should make an entry in the
/etc/fstab with the following:
/dev/sda4   /mnt/zip100.0   vfat   noauto,user   0,0

Now all you should need to do is
   mount /dev/sda4

and you should be able to have access to the zip disk.

If you are still having difficulties, let me know.

Robert Heinich

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> Message: 20
> From: Jturena at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:42:32 EDT
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Mounting  zip100.0
> Reply-To: trilug at trilug.org
> 
>  I just reinstalled RH7.2, and am having no luck at mounting my zip 
> drive 
> with "mount /dev/hdc4  /mnt/zip100.0" (I know I could leave one of 
> the 
> parameters out because the stuff is listed in my fstab file).
>  It is requiring me to specify the filesystem type. I tried all the 
> ones I 
> know: ext2, msdos, vfat.
>  The zip file was made on my Windows system, and it has a downloaded 
> Linux 
> binary of apache and mysql that I want to install.
>  Could anyone please direct me to what the problem might be, or what 
> the 
> solution is.
>  Thanks,
>  Jim U.
>