Zipdrive not recognized

**merlin** · 01-16-2003, 04:25 AM

Knoppix fails to recognize my Iomega 250MB internal zipdrive. Is there a way to manually mount it?

**stonent** · 01-16-2003, 06:22 AM

It has probably been configured as /dev/sda

Most non-normal drives get sent through scsi emulation. At work I've been using a USB 1.44mb floppy drive (made by Imation). Knoppix puts
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5

on my desktop. None of them work, but if I want to mount a floppy, I open a terminal and type

mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy

**merlin** · 01-16-2003, 08:02 PM

Thanks for your info.

However, I do not have /dev/sda on my desktop, and cannot mount it using a terminal window. I get an error message that the file system is unknown.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 01-17-2003, 08:52 AM

--Post the results of ' fdisk -l ' as root.

Originally Posted by merlin

Thanks for your info.

However, I do not have /dev/sda on my desktop, and cannot mount it using a terminal window. I get an error message that the file system is unknown.

**merlin** · 01-17-2003, 08:35 PM

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3456 27760288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 3457 7297 30852832+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3457 6271 22611456 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 6272 7297 8241313+ 83 Linux

**Zadel** · 03-17-2003, 10:57 PM

I know it has been awhile since this topic was going, but I was curious how this turned out.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 03-19-2003, 01:30 AM

--If it hasn't worked yet, modprobe for the following:

ide-floppy 11744 0
ide-scsi 7696 0
sd_mod 10688 10 (autoclean)
scsi_mod 88400 6 (autoclean) [usb-storage st sr_mod sg aic7xxx ide-scsi sd_mod]

--I'm pretty sure ide-floppy is the one you need.

Originally Posted by Zadel

I know it has been awhile since this topic was going, but I was curious how this turned out.