Unable to mount zip drive in Mandrivia 2006.0

chuck53 · 08-18-2006, 11:30 PM

Does anyone know what drivers are needed in order to access a internal zip drive? When I place a zip disk in the drive that contains data and try and read the disk nothing happens the drive does not spin nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

Electro · 08-19-2006, 03:22 AM

Zip drives like to be slave IDE drives. To force the drive to access the disk, type fdisk -l as sudo or su. Assuming the zip drive is /dev/hdb. The disk will be /dev/hdb4. Please do not ask why. After that, you can just mount the disk. To mount it, type sudo mount -t auto -o rw /dev/hdb4 /mnt/disk. This assumes that you are in the wheel group and sudo is installed with the proper config.

chuck53 · 08-24-2006, 10:13 PM

Thanks for the help that took care of it for me.