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Author: Donn Shumway
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Subject: Zip drive issue
Is the Primary device on the secondary channel an IDE CD-RW?

Regards,
Donn Shumway

"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