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All:

I've got a paralell ZIP drive, installed the PPA driver 1.41, and it
sees the drive correctly on startup. Now, how do I mount the damned
thing? I've tried mounting /dev/sd[a-g] and /dev/lp0, but no good. I've
also tried raw reading/writing from those devices using dd, but only
errors about "no such device" on /dev/sda (I have no real SCSI hardware)
and "no such device or address" with lp0.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)

--
----- Stephan Beal

http://www.he.net/~sgbeal

It should be mounted as:
mount /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
... if your zip disk has a dos format.  But you can format the zip disk and
mount it with:
mount /dev/sda1 /zipdrive
hope this helps..

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
   -- Albert Einstein

If the ppa driver is installed correctly just type:

'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt'

That should do it. Works for me on all my Linux machines!
-joe-

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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:15:18 +0200, Stephan Beal

For some reason the file system resides on the fourth partition on
pre-formatted zip disks.

I use Windows 95 with my zip disks quite a bit and I find that using,

"mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt"

works well for me. It allows me to use Windows 95 at work to pull kits of
the net and preserve the long file names commonly associated with Unix
files.

Pete