mounting CD-ROM and ZIP disk
How do I mount a CD-ROM and ZIP drive under KDE?
thanks in advance. Murdock |
open terminal or console:
mount /dev/[name of device] for example: [hunter@localhost hunter]$ mount /dev/hdc [hunter@localhost hunter]$ to unmount device: umount /dev/[name of device] to know name of device check in control center :] or in fstab... |
/etc/fstab
The first reply assumes you have /etc/fstab and your mount point setup correctly. If you need to setup /etc/fstab check "man fstab". Basically the syntax is <device> <mount point> <fs_type> <options> <fsck_settings>. Here's an example entry for a cdrom:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 If you have /etc/fstab setup already, and you just want an easy way to mount a drive graphically; KDE easily allows creating a link to your drive on your desktop where you can simply double-click to mount. |
I found that if I didn't have a zip disk in the drive when linux booted that I couldn't mount the partition on it.
The zip drive is my secondary slave so the device is at /dev/hdd. When a disk is in the drive you can mount it manually by going: mount -t auto /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip You may have to replace 'auto' with 'vfat' or something. I found that if the zip disk wasn't in on boot then /dev/hdd4 wouldn't exist. To remedy this I got some help from the guys at the Gentoo forums. If I run blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdd as root then /dev/hdd4 appears and I can mount it! Hope this helps! |
I cannot get my internal IDE Zip drive to mount. I have tried using KDE's destop shortcut plus all the terminal commands I have found in these newsgroups.
I issue this command: #mount -t auto /dev/hdd /mnt/zip100 and get this response: mount: you must specify the filesystem type Here is my /etc/fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/zip100 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 I would appreciate any help with this! Andy |
BTW... Here is some of the output from dmsg:
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 19807200 sectors (10141 MB) w/466KiB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdd: attached ide-floppy driver. hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. |
A normal DOS formated Zip disk mounts the 4th partition so it should be /dev/hdd4 in your fstab. I'm wondering why your zip disk has 6 partitions and what the [mac] means. Is this a MAC or PC formated disk?
So what kind of partitions is on the disk. Try fdisk: fdisk -l /dev/hdd |
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It is a PC formated disk. I don't remember seeing all the [mac] listings when I booted without having a disk in the drive. Now this "table" appears 3 times in dmesg:
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6 Also, when I reboot, the entry for the zip drive in fstab is removed and the directory (zip100) I created in /mnt is also removed. Any ideas on what I can try next? The fdisk command says cannot open /dev/hdd Quote:
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My dmesg doesn't mention anything about [mac]'s... I just get something like:
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdd: No disk in drive (or) hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm What kernel are you running? |
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Mon Aug 18 11:45:58 EDT 2003 |
I am sure that the disk does not contain an Apple Mac format. It was used with a PC.
Is there a way to format the disk so if the disk is somehow corrupt I can be able to use it with Linux? |
If this is an ATAPI device you should be using SCSI emulation instead of ide-floppy.
BTW does a /dev/sda device exist? http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10660.html |
No I don't think so.
Here's the guy who looks after the ide-floppy driver's page: http://paulbristow.net/linux/ide-floppy.html A quote from the site: "Which drives does it support? -Iomega ATAPI ZIP 100/250" |
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