Most ZIP disks formatted from the factory have the usable partition on 4,
ie: to mount my ZIP drive I would do a
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
To keep things easy, I did this
ln -s /dev/hdd4 /dev/zip
so instead of mounting hdd4, I now mount zip.
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com
Software Engineer
Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771
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On Thu, 1 Jun 100, goingware.com wrote:
> If you'll see "Can't recognize Adaptec APA-1480 in 2.4.0-test1-ac4"
> you'll see that my problem recognizing my Adaptec SlimSCSI card was
> resolved by the patch posted by Garth Reese in that thread.
>
> The card is recognized and initialized (some message about downloading
> sequencing code and stuff, so I imagine the card must be functioning),
> however I tried mounting an Iomega Zip disk with a Macintosh HFS volume
> on it and got this message
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number
>
> This worked under kernel 2.2.13. I'm using Slackware 7 and the device
> files were set up by the Slackware installer.
>
> ls -l /dev/sda1
> brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 29 1995 /dev/sda1
>
> I think zip disks may not have partition tables. I tried mounting
> "/dev/sda" which I think means the whole disk and not just a partition,
> and got the same message.
>
> Have the device numbers changed at all during kernel versions?
>
> Note that the Adaptec APA-1480 driver (apa1480_cb.o module) uses the
> aic7xxx driver which has had some other issues lately.
>
> Michael D. Crawford
> GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
> http://www.goingware.com
> crawford@goingware.com
>
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