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I purchased my computer about 3 years ago with Red Hat pre-installed. It has an iomega zip Atapi 100 mg drive. It worked fine with RH 7.1. I use Red Carpet to update my configuration. At some point the zip drive quit working. I have confirmed that there is no mechanical problem. I had the computer in for servicing and asked the technician to check the zip drive. He put in a brand new drive and still had the same problem. I recently upgraded to RH7.2, hoping that would fix the problem, but it did not. When I click on the CD ROM drive on the KDE desktop, I see the message:
/dev/hdd4: Input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and none was specified.
The zip disks are as they come from the box, i.e., preformatted for Windows. I can read the zip disks on a Windows machine. Here is the contents of etc/filesystems:
/lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/fs/vfat does exist. I don't think the floppy would work if vfat support was missing.
Here is the contents of 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/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip100.0 auto noauto,user,kudzu 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,kudzu 0 0
If I try to change the mount option to vfat, I get the message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd4, or too many mounted filesystems
here is /boot/grub/device.map:
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
Here are the drive descriptions from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
Thanks a bunch. The problem wasn't that I had to
specify vfat. The problem was that the Red Hat
configuration program had put this in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip100.0 auto noauto,user,kudzu 0 0
All I had to do was change /dev/hdd4 to /dev/hdd. I
have seen some discussion that said one had to
specify eithe hdd1 or hdd4, depending on the
filesystem. When I saw your post, I tried using
/dev/hdd. Works like a charm! Thanks for your help.
Red Hat installation support just gave me some BS
that zip drives were not covered by installation support.
To get the info, you just gave me, I would have had to
pay an extra $320! Can you believe that? I think I'll
switch to Mandrake.
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