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I have an internal IDE-Zip and problems mounting the disks. I have
(under Win9X) freshly formated Disks, and when I try to mount them, I
get  

mount: Falscher Dateisystemtyp, ungltige Optionen, der
       ?Superblock? von /dev/hdb ist besch?digt oder es sind
       zu viele Dateisysteme gemountet

From 10 ZIP_disks I can mount only one :-(. Does anybody know this
problem and a solution?

Thanks a lot
 Maik

Quote:>I have an internal IDE-Zip and problems mounting the disks. I have
>(under Win9X) freshly formated Disks, and when I try to mount them, I
>get  
>mount: Falscher Dateisystemtyp, ungltige Optionen, der
>From 10 ZIP_disks I can mount only one :-(. Does anybody know this
>problem and a solution?

mount -t vfat /dev/hdX4 /mnt/zip
or
mount -t vfat /dev/hdX1 /mnt/zip

ZIP disks these days are usually partitioned such that all their data is
on partition 4, but there are some odd ones that live on partition 1.

Which kernel are you using?  The 2.2.5 kernel that shipped with RedHat 6.0
and SuSE 6.1 had some problems with ZIP disks.  These have been fixed in
any kernel higher than 2.2.7--make sure this is not your problem....

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Have you tried to format the zips using the iomega zip-tools.
I experienced the same problems you described when I
formatted zips with win95 without zip-tools installed.
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