Mounting Zip drive under Slackware
 

I'm sure this question has been answered before, but I can't seem to get any decent search results on it here. I put in "zip drive" on a search, but it brought up all kinds of irrelevant messages. I don't know what else to do but post.

I have an ATAPI Zip 100MB drive, and I've had it working under linux before, and I'm pretty sure all I did was mount it with type vfat as /dev/hdd or /dev/hdd4, I can't remember which, but neither one is working anymore. I have the fat, vfat, and msdos modules loaded, and I also have the ide-floppy module loaded. In the kernel configuration tool menuconfig, the help file states that the ide-floppy module is what allows use of ATAPI Zip and LS120 drives, but when I try to mount my drive, I get the following error after issuing the command 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdd(4) /mnt/zip':

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd(4), or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

I know it's not the filesystem modules, because msdos floppies mount just fine. I've had this working before, and I don't even recall having to use the ide-floppy module in the past (maybe it was compiled into the kernel), but from what I've read, this should work. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Alan

could you post the line from your fstab that defines the zip drive.

I found that using the ide-floppy module generally ends in tears, these days. I would suggest using the ide-scsi option instead, and then rather than trying to mount /dev/hdd4, you mount /dev/sda4 (presuming you don't have any other scsi disks before it :D).

Awesome
 

I am already using the ide-scsi module, and I did the mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 (home directory is sda) /mnt/zip and it worked great. :)

It was actually not already in the /etc/fstab, since I hadn't gotten it to mount yet.

Thanks a bunch!!