On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:11:08PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:44:53 -0500 > "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > I'm having a problem mounting a 250Mb internal zip. > > a. dmesg shows me hdd:IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI FLOPPY > ^^^ > > b. standard mount procedures (edit '/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto > > user,noauto 0 0' into /etc/fstab followed by mount /mnt/zip) gives: > > "the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe > > 'insmod driver'?)" > > The dmesg output you pasted above shows the zip drive on hdd. As > root try running "mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip". If that works, you'll need > to change the sda4 in your fstab entry to hdd. > > If that doesn't work, you may want to run "fdisk /dev/hdd" as root to > see if the disk is partitioned weird and then add the appropriate > partition number to your mount command/fstab entry (hdd1, hdd2, etc.). > > > I'm new to Debian (having just switched from Red Hat), this is a new > > install of Woody. An earlier message mentioned something about a ppa > > module but I can find no ref anywhere to that. > > If dmesg is showing that it's already been setup on /dev/hdd, you > shouldn't need to load any more modules... except maybe fat or vfat, but > that would be a totally different error from what you pasted above.
IIRC the ppa module is for the parport version of the ZIP drive (and in that case it _is_ /dev/sda4 ), but for the internal drive it should be as Jacob wrote. HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
