Subject: RE: Re: Zip Disk?
From: Ruprecht, Chris (cruprech@compucom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 06:02:51 MDT
pdisk /dev/sdb
:)
BUT!!! - Are you sure that /dev/sdb is in fact your ZIP drive? If you
have more than one SCSI drive in your machine, it might be another hard
disk drive or the CD-ROM! And you don't want to overwrite your hard
drive ...
Best regards,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Brandt [mailto:rbrandt@sbdsl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:31 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Zip Disk?
>
>
> 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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