IDE internal Zip drive install?

[tornad]

I have a ATAPI (It's insalled via the secondairy IDE port after the CDrom) 250 Meg Zip Drive
I checked the NHF,s for that topic but it doesn'nt work when i did:

mount -t /dev/sdX4 /mnt/zip

and i got the message:
Special device does'nt existe

So what should i do ?
Thanks

[tep]

Are you actually using the letter X in the device name? The X should be replaced with the correct device number. For the second drive on the second controller it would be

/dev/sdd4

[tornad]

Yes tep, i corrected it but now i have that message:
"mount:The kernel doesn'nt reconize the /dev/sdd4 as a block device.
(maybe ismod driver?)"

[Bowtie]

Tornad, forget the scsi setting. mount it as an IDE device:

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/zip

I've got an internal zip 100 and that is what I have to type in. Works like a charm.

Johnny

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Man made objects prone to failure....

[tornad]

Thanks for your patience guys.
I have done what Bowtie sugested but i had that message:
/dev/hdb is not a valid block device

what next, any suggestion anyone?

[ille_pugil42]

there's a zip disk in the drive right? Just checking...

[SubPar]

Bowtie's zip drive is obviously his primary slave device. That's why hdb works for him. You said that yours is on the secondary IDE port, after the CD-ROM. If that means it's the secondary slave, then you should use hdd and not hdb.

Mine is my secondary slave device. In my /etc/fstab file I have the line:

/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat user,exec,async,suid,rw 0 0

This way when I want to mount my zip drive I just run "mount /dev/hdd4" and that's it.

[This message has been edited by SubPar (edited 10 November 2000).]

[tornad]

Thanks Subpar,
You got the picture since you took into acount that my zip was a secondary IDE slave
while my CD-Rom was primary a when i typed
mount -t msdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
it worked http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif