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OK, I am still somewhat a noob with Linux. Just switched over to SuSE 9.2 and have already beaten a few problems, but here is one that has be a bit baffled.
I have 2 IDE hard drives with 6 partitions. All those work fine.
I have a Lite-On DVD Burner and an HP CD Burner. These work fine.
I have an IDE ZIP drive, and it works fine.
The floppy works fine.
My flash card reader works fine.
My USB Keys work fine.
HOWEVER . . .
I have an Iomega 1GB Jaz drive running off a SCSI card. Mandrake saw it and automounted. SuSE apparently doesn't know it exists.
I probably have too many drives on that machine, and may need to just take files off my Jaz cartridges and back 'em up to DVD or something. Still, while not a show stopper for me on SuSE, it would be nice if the Jaz would work as well as all the other devices.
I imagine I have to edit some fstab file or something, but I am not familiar yet with the syntax, which files do what, and what to do with ithem. My goal is to be as proficient in Linux as I used to be in DOS. I could write an autoexec.bat and config.sys file with the best of them. Someday, maybe I will be as good with Linux. Yet, that remains a goal, not reality.
Originally posted by RKendrick OK, I am still somewhat a noob with Linux. Just switched over to SuSE 9.2 and have already beaten a few problems, but here is one that has be a bit baffled.
I have 2 IDE hard drives with 6 partitions. All those work fine.
I have a Lite-On DVD Burner and an HP CD Burner. These work fine.
I have an IDE ZIP drive, and it works fine.
The floppy works fine.
My flash card reader works fine.
My USB Keys work fine.
HOWEVER . . .
I have an Iomega 1GB Jaz drive running off a SCSI card. Mandrake saw it and automounted. SuSE apparently doesn't know it exists.
I probably have too many drives on that machine, and may need to just take files off my Jaz cartridges and back 'em up to DVD or something. Still, while not a show stopper for me on SuSE, it would be nice if the Jaz would work as well as all the other devices.
I imagine I have to edit some fstab file or something, but I am not familiar yet with the syntax, which files do what, and what to do with ithem. My goal is to be as proficient in Linux as I used to be in DOS. I could write an autoexec.bat and config.sys file with the best of them. Someday, maybe I will be as good with Linux. Yet, that remains a goal, not reality.
Thanks in advance for any help.
SCSI has nothing to do with IDE unless you are trying to boot off of SCSI when you have IDE hard disks in the system. The mount point might be an issue though or perhaps the controller and/or driver is the issue.
Please try these commands and please put [/code] at the end and [code] at the begining of each output, ok?
Maybe I should be more clear though. I am not booting off the Jaz drive. I have a partition on the main hard drive for that. Also, I am too chicken to put the bootloader into the MBR, so I boot to SuSE off of a floppy, then it boots my HD Linux installation. For XP, I just boot without the floppy.
Anyway, back to the JAZ, it is just another data disk store, not something I am booting off of.
Do I just enter these commands as root, or do I write a script containing them? I probably need to read more about the fstab file. I tried to edit it before, but could never get it to work for me.
Originally posted by RKendrick Thanks for the reply.
Maybe I should be more clear though. I am not booting off the Jaz drive. I have a partition on the main hard drive for that. Also, I am too chicken to put the bootloader into the MBR, so I boot to SuSE off of a floppy, then it boots my HD Linux installation. For XP, I just boot without the floppy.
Anyway, back to the JAZ, it is just another data disk store, not something I am booting off of.
Do I just enter these commands as root, or do I write a script containing them? I probably need to read more about the fstab file. I tried to edit it before, but could never get it to work for me.
Thanks
Copy your fstab file to here and be sure please to put [/code] at the end of the pasted text and [code] at the beginning of it.
When I was talking about SCSI I was answering or explaining the difference because you mentioned something about it and you also mentioned that you might have too many mount points which is why I asked you to do the commands and paste the results.
You would change the /etc/fstab file to reflect the new hard disk, whatever number it is and then the mount point. Run
man fstab
or you can read up on it here at LQ.org in the Wiki section.
The JAZ disk should be showing up with sda or something like that. So in your fstab you need to put
Code:
/dev/sda /media/jaz auto user 0 0
or whatever the mount point is on the jaz disk is you'd replace /media/jaz with the mount point name, say like /saves or whaterver.
Is the JAZ disk formatted with a Linux file system or something else? If so you can set the "auto" to the file system type instead, like ext2 or reiserfs.
Thank you! I will give this a try. The Jaz disks are formatted as FAT32 I think, so auto is probably the correct setting. I will read up on fstab as you suggest.
Now if Picasa2 and SimCity4 were native Linux apps, I could just go pure Linux.
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