Hi, Roy. In most cases the -t vfat parameter is totally unnecessary. Mount can usually autodetect the file system on the disk. At least, that has been my experience. Now, you are experiencing one of two problems. Either it is not getting the right file system, which if you let mount automatically detect the file system may correct the issue. Second, there may be some bad sectors on the disk you do not know about and mount is unable to mount the disk. One diference you will discover is that Windows can usually access drives unless the disk is really bad, but mount under Linux can sometimes refuse to mount a damaged disk. Floppies and zip disks are well known to have mount errors after they are old and start going bad. It is the main reason I threw away my zip disks and now burn everything to cd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:27 PM Subject: Re: zip drive > hi Greg, > well you were right it is hdd on my system as well. i guess I didn't read > enough to know that the other one was for parellel devices only. > but now when I try this command > mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /zip > I get the following error message > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 8293 > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:40. > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, > or too many mounted file systems > [ > > I was able to mount the flopppy drive with the abouve command successfully > so I am not sure if there is something wrong with my zipdisk or if there is > still something I don't know. Actually my disk is fine i use it under > windows. > Roy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:34 PM > Subject: Re: zip drive > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Then why are you using /dev/sda4 to access the drive? Those are only > for parallel port drives. > > First, you need to find out what your machine is seeing the zip drive > as. Type > > dmesg |more > > and look through the output for your zip drive. Mine looks like the > following: > > hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > > In this case, my zip drive is accessed as /dev/hdd. So, if I have a > mount point called /mnt/zip, I would do: > > mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip > > to mount the drive. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:16:40PM -0400, Roy Nickelson wrote: > > hi, > > it is internal it is an ide drive. > > Roy > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAf0YZ7s9z/XlyUyARAtM7AKCyZqg2/P17m4Da8U5aLemay5Fz1QCdGOc8 > B3vENNof2xxyEGGyC+XgI3U= > =riHk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
