Greetings all.
I am a relative newcomer to Linux and am posting this on advice from my local
Linux user group (Victoria, Australia), concerning a wierd problem I am
having mounting my Zip files.
Iam running Mandrake 8.1 on a 266 MB K6-2 with 256 MB RAM. My CD, CD-RW and
floppy drives work, and I _have_ had my zip drive working on one occasion
using the command: "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2", but that appears to
have been a fluke. The following are results of some of the things I've
tried:
/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/zip auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
dmesg
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
cat /proc/partitions
[root@localhost proc]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
running use aveq
3 0 20044080 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 7338 31157 308020
61400 2382 636 24432 17810 0 52350 79210
3 1 3582463 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 4700 14911 156882
30630
1642 342 16120 12610 0 28540 43240
3 2 1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 5 248976 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1 0 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 10
10 3 6 16209553 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2637 16246 151130
30760
740 294 8312 5200 0 24430 35960
[root@localhost proc]# ls -l /dev/sda
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Apr 5 2002 /dev/sda ->
scsi/host1/bus0/target6/lun0/disc
The listing for /dev/sda is flashing, which I believe means that the link is
dangling. The concensus appears to be that "scsi0" isn't creating an entry in
/proc/partitions, so it hasn't registered a block device, which indicates a
possible ppa/scsi driver problem. What do ppl think?
Any help greatly appreciated. Please CC me. I haven't joined the list
as yet, as 99% of it would probably go over my head. Gimme time :-)
Thanks,
Barry
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