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chadm1967
01-30-2002, 06:39 AM
Hi all,

I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm having a problem accessing my internal ZIP 100 drive. Following are the settings in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda5 / jfs defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0



Following is the error I receive when I try to access the drive:

[chad@mandrake1 chad]$ su
Password:
[root@mandrake1 chad]# mount /mnt/zip
mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
[root@mandrake1 chad]#

Thanks for any help you can give.
nholowat
01-30-2002, 08:36 AM
Try:
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
01-30-2002, 02:46 PM
Maybe ATAPI flopy support isn't installed in your kernel. My IDE zip 250 didn't work until I put ATAPI floppy support in...

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Alex Cavnar ]
chadm1967
01-30-2002, 05:59 PM
Thanks for the help, nholowat.

I tried that but it still isn't working. I get the following error when I run that:

[root@mandrake1 dev]# mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
[root@mandrake1 dev]#

Thanks again for the help.
jlany
01-30-2002, 08:47 PM
Do you see the 'Zip' when you do a 'cdrecord -scanbus' ? Mandrake 8.1 normally sets this up with scsi emulation. You should also see this in 'dmesg'.
chadm1967
01-30-2002, 10:17 PM
When I ran scanbus -record, it did not see my internal (IDE) ZIP drive. It did, however, see my external USB ZIP drive and the ID is 0,0,0.

Thanks.
nholowat
01-31-2002, 10:44 AM
It sounds like the dev is not on the system. Have you checked to make sure have the primary and slave set up properly. Your disk hda is the primary(master) and the zip hdb4 should be the secondary(slave). Does it see the Zip device in the BIOS when you boot up?

[ 31 January 2002: Message edited by: nholowat ]