Subject: RE: Re: Zip Disk?
From: Rob Brandt (rbrandt@sbdsl.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 10:22:44 MDT
Yes, when I issued the pdisk -l /dev/sdb1 the light on the zip lit
up, so I know it's going to the right device. I'll try the line
below when I get home tonight.
Rob
>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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