hi, it is internal it is an ide drive. Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: zip drive -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maybe we should take a step back first, and ask if your zip drive is internal or external? If it's internal, then you're specifying an incorrect device file to start with. Greg On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:53:21PM -0400, Roy Nickelson wrote: > hi, > how do you determine the correct mount point I have a directory caloled /zip > but when I try to mount the drive as follows > mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip > > I get the error that says /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. > The zipdisk is one that I normally use under windows. > Roy > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfwPi7s9z/XlyUyARAqC+AJ4z0Gaa64C8onPm+BYTZEqbvST6owCgpfl/ L3hs0vKxBzp4Ya4z5bZaCJU= =c6ZU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup