Iomega Zip 100 parallel drive installation problem
 

I have a Zip 100 parallel drive connect to printer port
I am using Gnome 2.6.1
Kernel 2.6.7 (ppa is already load it at kernel)
I try to mount my iomega zip drive, but can not work.

I am using this command
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /iomega

but it is not work here is the error message, I already try a-g
"mount /dev/sda4 is not valid block device"

Actually i don't know my device name is it /dev/sda4 or not. I want to know how do I check that?

Can anybody help me on installation

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Another question
I have go to iomega.com and download the linux driver.
but it is only 2 files in there
one is iw
and another one is readme, which I already read it.

I want to know how do I use it????

Regard
BBMak

To mount using iw you should only need the drive address, in my case all I need is sda. EDIT: But if you want to know where the disk is at type "fdisk -l" and that will give you a readout of all the hard disks/removable hard disks on the system. You might have to run that as root though.

Anyways onto the usage of IW:

Create a folder /mnt/zip (doesn't really matter what you call it, but it's where you will mount to)

then use:

iw -m /dev/sda -mp /mnt/zip

Where sda is where your disk is at.

To unmount type:
iw -u /dev/sda

Dark Helmet helped me out in another thread with automating this into a simple file I named mzip. Here's the thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=194860

What is the use of IW?

The "ppa" module has always worked for me.

To mount and unmount the drive.

I've always just used the normal mount and umount commands, I have never had a problem with them.

Yeah, I've used it also. But since he asked how to use it i told him.