This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_MMDik0AYd/yoZLpXQqZcgQ) Content-type: text/plain It's just an IDE CD-ROM. I know that for some CD-RWs, you need to load SCSI modules of some sort. This is just a straight up CD drive. Can't figure out why it seems to be loaded on a SCSI bus. The CD works though. Thanks, Kirt -----Original Message----- From: Donn Shumway [mailto:DShumway@hypercom.com] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:48 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Zip drive issue Is the Primary device on the secondary channel an IDE CD-RW? Regards, Donn Shumway dshumway@hypercom.com "Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'" -- Pearl S. Buck >I have installed Progeny Linux RC 2 and then apt-get upgraded to the commercial release. I'm working on a Dell OptiPlex GX1. I'm trying to >figure out how to mount a zip drive under this system. The zip drive is the slave device on the 2nd IDE channel making it /dev/hdd. So I type >mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /zip and I get "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd4, or too many mounted file systems" >I've also poked around on the CD and it's mounting /dev/scd0. Any ideas would be a great help. >Thanks, Kirt ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --Boundary_(ID_MMDik0AYd/yoZLpXQqZcgQ) Content-type: text/html Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable RE: Zip drive issue

It's just an IDE CD-ROM. I know that for some CD-RWs, = you need to load SCSI modules of some sort. This is just a straight up = CD drive. Can't figure out why it seems to be loaded on a SCSI bus. The = CD works though.

Thanks, Kirt

-----Original Message-----
From: Donn Shumway [mailto:DShumway@hypercom.com]<= /FONT>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:48 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Zip drive issue



Is the Primary device on the secondary channel an IDE = CD-RW?

Regards,
Donn Shumway
dshumway@hypercom.com
"Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always = follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not
facing and accepting the 'what.'"
-- Pearl S. Buck




>I have installed Progeny Linux RC 2 and then = apt-get upgraded to the commercial release. I'm
working on a Dell OptiPlex GX1. I'm trying to = >figure out how to mount a zip drive under this
system. The zip drive is the slave device on the 2nd = IDE channel making it /dev/hdd. So I type
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /zip and I get = "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/hdd4, or too many mounted file = systems"


>I've also poked around on the CD and it's = mounting /dev/scd0. Any ideas would be a great help.


>Thanks, Kirt







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