mounting zip disk

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 04:29 +0000, Chethiya Ranaweera wrote:
> 
> >From: Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: mounting zip disk
> >Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:42:07 -0800
> >
> >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
> >
> >--
> Jerry,
> Is your zip disk already formatted? If it is, then make sure that you have 
> ntfs file system installed. Type cat /proc/filesystems and check for ntfs. 
> Now there could be some glitch which saw before. If you type /sbin/fdisk -l 
> you migh be able to see your zip drive. Compare the zipdevice name with the 
> one you get in the kde menu. They might be not the same. In that case follow 
> this:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/zip
> mount /dev/zipdevice_name  /mnt/zip -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
> (Assuming you have ntfs file system and use the fdisk device name for 
> 'zipdevice_name' )
> 
> And you should be able to mount your zip disk.
> --Chet
> 

Chet,

Unless I have been sleeping weirdly, what does NTFS have to do with a
zip drive?

The zip disks I have all come preformatted with a fat filesystem.

Please enlighten me with details if I have missed the train here and
NTFS is now standard on zip disks.

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