I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
so please cc me on replies.
Quick version: after perusing the archives of this list, I found my
ZIP-250 drive (hdd) and tried mounting a plain ZIP-100 disk with 'mount
-t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point'. I got the 'bad superblock, no such fs,
or something else' error message that others have reported.
Yes, the vfat module is loaded. Yes, there is a working filesystem on the
disk (Windows shows the little "50ways.exe" file as well). Same problem
with other related filesystem types (dos, msdos, fat, etc).
I've just switched from RH to Debian. This worked automatically under RH,
using a /dev/zip device. Unfortunately, I no longer have that partition,
so I can't see what /dev/zip really was. KDE2 wants /dev/zip to be
there for mounting, but I don't know what to use for a target if I make
a /dev/zip symlink.
One other thing. /var/log/messages shows
kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
kernel: hdd: hdd4
kernel: hdd: hdd4
kernel: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
kernel: [me=0x6d,cs=768,#f=32,fs=37632,fl=423504,ds=13786368,de=8237,
data=13786896,se=28489,ts=1869182049,ls=8293,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
kernel: Transaction block size = 512
kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:40.
kernel: hdd:<5>ll_rw_block: device 16:40: only 512-char blocks implemented
(1024)
kernel: unable to read partition table
which suggests that if 1K blocks were implemented, this would Just Work...?
That can't be the right conclusion -- I was running the same 2.2.19 kernel
under RH7 that I'm running now under Debian, built from stock sources.
Any ideas?
Phil
--
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in
new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance
which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
- anonymous Egyptian scribe, c.1700 BC
