zip drive errors

[Justin Bennett]

is the zip disk formatted? the device is hdd, when zip disks come
formated it is a vfat partition on partition numner 4. can you fdisk
/dev/hdd and verify there is a partition on the disk. If not can you
create a fat partition on partition 4?


Michael Osika wrote:

> Hello All, I've been following the postings for sometime now and have
> managed to get Mandrake 8.1 loaded and running thanks to the disks
> handed out at the May meeting. I have the system connected to
> Adelphia's PowerLink and have the cd-rom and floppy drive mounted and
> working.( not too bad for a complete newbie ).   However when I try to
> get the Zip Drive mounted I get an error saying that " special device
> hdd4 does not exist ". When I type in "dmesg" I can see a line saying
> --------- hdd  Iomega zip atapi etc.---- and another line entry in the
> /etc/fstab directory identifying the hdd4 device, but no such listing
> exists in the  /dev directory.I have tried to create a new floppy
> device as "root"  but I get another message saying I don't have
> permission to do this which surprised me considering I was logged in
> as root. Any help with this is always appreciated. I have other
> questions but I'm taking a one thing at a time approach. Mike Osika
>
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