From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:50:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:50:30 -0500 Received: from mta02ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.134]:38613 "EHLO mta02ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:50:25 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Barry Kirsten To: Linux-kernel Subject: Problem mounting Zip Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:51:08 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20020405025026Z311264-616+5710@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings all. I am a relative newcomer to Linux and am posting this on advice from my local Linux user group (Victoria, Australia), concerning a wierd problem I am having mounting my Zip files. Iam running Mandrake 8.1 on a 266 MB K6-2 with 256 MB RAM. My CD, CD-RW and floppy drives work, and I _have_ had my zip drive working on one occasion using the command: "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2", but that appears to have been a fluke. The following are results of some of the things I've tried: /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 dmesg ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2 ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2 scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 cat /proc/partitions [root@localhost proc]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 3 0 20044080 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 7338 31157 308020 61400 2382 636 24432 17810 0 52350 79210 3 1 3582463 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 4700 14911 156882 30630 1642 342 16120 12610 0 28540 43240 3 2 1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 248976 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1 0 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 3 6 16209553 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2637 16246 151130 30760 740 294 8312 5200 0 24430 35960 [root@localhost proc]# ls -l /dev/sda lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Apr 5 2002 /dev/sda -> scsi/host1/bus0/target6/lun0/disc The listing for /dev/sda is flashing, which I believe means that the link is dangling. The concensus appears to be that "scsi0" isn't creating an entry in /proc/partitions, so it hasn't registered a block device, which indicates a possible ppa/scsi driver problem. What do ppl think? Any help greatly appreciated. Please CC me. I haven't joined the list as yet, as 99% of it would probably go over my head. Gimme time :-) Thanks, Barry