LeRoy D. Cressy on Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:20:30 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Mounting Zip drives in RH6.0


Justin Bedard wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have this IOMega internal zip drive for my Dell Inspiron 7000.  I have a zip
> disk the was used under NT.  When I'm on a Windoze box, I can read the data
> just fine.  When I try to mount the zip drive under Linux, I get the following
> message.
> 
> [1003 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> When I'm outside of X, the mount command spits out a little more stuff but
> comes to the same conclusion.
> 
> When I issue the mount command, there is activity in the zip drive.  So I have
> the right device.
> 
> /mnt/zip does exist:
> 
> [1006 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ ls -ld /mnt/zip/
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul 23 12:31 /mnt/zip/
> 
> And there's nothing in it:
> 
> [1007 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ ls -l /mnt/zip/
> total 2
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul 23 12:31 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         1024 Jul 22 13:58 ../
> 
> I doubt it can be wrong fs type.  I only really have 2 choices, right?  vfat &
> msdos.  Both yield the same messages.
> 


Did you use  NT to format the disks?  You might have an ntfs on them in
which case you have to include provisions for ntfs in a kernel compile.

Also you can attempt mounting the disk by hand using different file
systems.

mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc /mnt/zip

I think that win95 and 98 both have built in provisions for reading NT
file systems.
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