Subject: Re: Zip disk ?
From: Rob Brandt (rbrandt@sbdsl.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 10:47:51 MDT
>If it's HFS formatted, it is very unlikely that the data portion is on
>the first partition as the partition map uses that. Stick the disk in the
>drive and do:
>
>pdisk -l /dev/sdb
OK, I'll try that. Isn't pdisk partitioning software? Does that
mean that if I am to use zip disks on my linux system that they have
to be prepared (partitioned and formatted) on the linux system first?
>
>(this is based on your dmesg output - although your fstab listing shows
>sda?)
I just copied the fstab from the previous message - my actual fstab
does say sdb1 - I was lazy when writing the email, and you caught me
:')
Rob
>This should tell you what partition you need to mount.
>
>Stew Benedict
>
>On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Rob Brandt wrote:
>
>> Thanks to who ever started this thread. I need to do this too.
>>
>> I've followed the directions below, but when I try to mount the disk I get
>> the message:
>>
>> SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101)MB
>> sdb: write protect is off
>> hfs_fs: unable to read block 0x00000252 from dev 08:11
>> hfs_fs: unable to read superblock
>> VFS: Cant find a HFS filesystem on the dev 08:11
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, or too many
>> mounted file systems
>>
>> My fstab is entered as below, just like suggested. The zip disks I am
>> trying to mount are newly formatted and readable by a Mac.
>>
>> /dev/sda /mnt/zip hfs rw,noauto,user 0 0
>>
>> However, if I change "hfs" to "auto" I can mount and read DOS formatted zip
>> disks. Mac formatted doesn't work.
>>
>> How do I fix this?
>>
>> Rob
>>
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