[akonstam: Re: mounting zip disk]

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:47:28 -0600
From: akonstam
Subject: Re: mounting zip disk
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:42:07PM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> When I put a zip disk in the drive and use the "Mount" command I get
> from the right mouse button applied to the zip disk icon on my KDE
> desktop I get the error message: "mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block
> device.  Please check that the disk is entered correctly."
> 
> What does this message mean and how can I get this zip disk mounted?  (I
> don't care if the solution involves losing data on the zip disk.)
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Jerry
>My experience is that zip drives mount from  /dev/sda4

Sorry, you are obviously talking about an internal zip drive and I
answered about an external zip drive.
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