Subject: Re: Zip Disk?
From: Rob Brandt (rbrandt@sbdsl.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 00:30:38 MDT
when I enter:
pdisk -l /dev/sdb1
I get:
pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/sdb1'
What now?
Rob
>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
>
>(this is based on your dmesg output - although your fstab listing shows
>sda?)
>
>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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