Zip Drive - Where is it?

[rrfish72]

Still need to get this to work. I did everything in the fstab and all the stuff the beginning of this post. Get same results. Access denied to /mnt/zip after it gets mounted.

root@rrfish72:/# ll mnt/zip
total 4
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 4079 Feb 15 1995 readme.txt

How do I get at the readme.txt file to actually read it?

Actually I got to read it somehow. I just clicked on the icon and it was there. Now I can't get to it again.

[Markus]

Still need to get this to work. I did everything in the fstab and all the stuff the beginning of this post. Get same results. Access denied to /mnt/zip after it gets mounted.

root@rrfish72:/# ll mnt/zip
total 4
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 4079 Feb 15 1995 readme.txt

Access denied or not? Clearly you can list the files on the disk. Perhaps it's just that you mounted as root and tried to access as user. This is now when the line in fstab comes handy. Unmount first if it's mounted and then try mounting as user with mount /mnt/zip

How do I get at the readme.txt file to actually read it?

You mean like:
cat /mnt/zip/readme.txt
mcedit /mnt/zip/readme.txt
kwrite /mnt/zip/readme.txt

Actually I got to read it somehow. I just clicked on the icon and it was there. Now I can't get to it again.

If it's mounted by root, you probably can't access, but if it's unmouted, clicking the icon should mount as user and permit access.

[cariboo]

Use modconf to insert the ppa module into the kernel. Do this as root

root@willy:~# modconf and hit enter

navigate to kernel/drivers/scsi hit enter
navigate down to ppa hit enter

You will now get a dialog box asking if you want to install this module
hit enter.

You will now get a dialog asking if you want to add any parameters, just hit enter.

After a few seconds you should get a messages saying installation successful hit enter when you are ready.

now type dmesg, your outputshould look something like this:

ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 16 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi5 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda4
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi5, channel 0, id 6, lun 0, type 0

Next edit /etc/fstab, it should look something like this:

/dev/sda4    /mnt/zip    vfat   defaults,rw,user,noauto    0    0

Create a directory in /mnt called zip.

You are now ready to mount your zip disk as any user.

Hope this hellps

Jim

[rrfish72]

Thank you Markus and cariboo for your input. Now it works and can get to my files with just a click in root only. It was the modconf step that was missing. If I can't get into it with what I've been told in this post, I'll be posting back for more help. This is what I get when I try to open my zip as rrfish: Access denied to /mnt/zip.

[OErjan]

in that case you might need to add users,gid=users,umask0002, in fstab, like below

/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat users,gid=users,umask0002,rw,noauto 0 0

.
that umask will alow the group users acess, and you are most likely in that group.
the reason you canot change permisions on that folder is vfat, it is not able to handle *IX style permisions, using umask as above "sidesteps" that somewhat, not verry secure but...

[morbidpalooza]

Would you post the output of the following commands after putting a disk in the drive:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
cdrecord -scanbus
sudo fdisk -l

done after modprobe

cat /proc/scsi/scsi =


Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-48247S Rev: PPB1
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATAPI Model: DVD DD 2X16X4X16 Rev: G7C9
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02


cdrecord -scanbus =


Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-48247S ' 'PPB1' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'ATAPI ' 'DVD DD 2X16X4X16' 'G7C9' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

fdisk -l

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 379950 937327 570754815+ 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(379949, 11, 5)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(937326, 59, 3)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 82368 1027695 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(82367, 59, 19)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1027694, 14, 2)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 913029 1858355 968014096 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(913028, 3, 26)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1858354, 20, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 1409025 1409052 27749+ d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1409024, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1409051, 6, 11)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 277 2094088+ 16 Hidden FAT16
/dev/hda2 278 693 3144960 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 694 4854 31457160 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4855 5169 2381400 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[morbidpalooza]

I am still haveing no luck with this darn thing!