benmayim
08-22-2003, 01:35 PM
I have an Iomega internal IDE zip drive which gets recognized by Knoppix, but can never be mounted. The error msg is: wrong fstype, or bad option, or bad superblock. Well, it's not a wrong fstype because I specified vfat which is the correct fstype on my zip disk, it's not a bad option because I know the mount command well enough to know, so it must be a bad superblock, which means that Knoppix cannot recognize either the partitioning of the zip disk and/or the vfat (win95 FAT32) file system. This is a serious flaw for me, since I depend heavily on zip disks. Not only can't I use vfat zips, but I've even tried to repartition a zip disk and use ext2 file system which also does not work....plain and simple, Knoppix does not work with internal IDE zipdrives, and needs to be fixed. When a fix for this appears in a newer version than 3.2, somebody, please email me at benmayim@hotmail.com :cry: :cry: I guess I'll have to go to Red Hat because I know that even older versions than the Red Hat version I have now supported my zip drive, but I like what's in Knoppix package better, and will have to remove a lot of the extra useless stuff that's in the Red Hat package.
PS, I've read all the posts I could find on this forum about iomega zip drives, and none helped. Some even claimed that you could use sda4 as the drive and that theirs worked in Knoppix 3.2....well, all I can say is their zip drive must not have been internal IDE, or their version 3.2 is different from mine.
PS, I've read all the posts I could find on this forum about iomega zip drives, and none helped. Some even claimed that you could use sda4 as the drive and that theirs worked in Knoppix 3.2....well, all I can say is their zip drive must not have been internal IDE, or their version 3.2 is different from mine.