Re: Mounting 100 MB zip disk in an internal ATAPI 250 ZIP drive

[Anthony J Placilla <anthony_placilla suth com>]

Laurent Steck wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I hava an internal ATAPI 250 MB Zip drive with the RH6.1 distribution.
>
> The drive is recognized at boot tima as the hdc drive.
>
> I try to mount vfat 100 MB ZIP disks with LinuxConf of the mount -t vfat
> /dev/hdc /mnt/zip command.
>
> It fails as it indicates a bad fs type or bad superblock.
> Does anyone has suggestions ?
>
> Thanks for all help
> Laurent
> --snip--
>
>

The command parameters for Zip drive mounting is to specify the block
device as /dev/hdc4 when you are mounting a pre-formated disk.

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