zip drive errors

Tue Jun 18 21:50:40 EDT 2002

Hello Mike,
  Those commands, fdisk, cfdisk, etc. are commands that require you to
be root or have root privileges, however, you do not need to be root to
just access the drive or drive's media later, unless it has been setup
that way (in the /etc/fstab file). Can you look in your
/var/log/messages file and see what designation the zip drive has? i.e.
hd? or sd?
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 21:36, Michael wrote:

    Yes,  I was both logged in as root and a disk was in the drive.
    Which reminds me of another question, " how come I am denied access
    to certain drives and - or - files if I was logged in as root. I'm
    supposed to have superuser status, right?  I noticed this while just
    tinkering around a few days ago.

    Thanks,

    Mike

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Cyber Source
        To: nflug at nflug.org
        Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:39 PM
        Subject: Re: zip drive errors

        did you have the disk in the drive when you were trying those
        commands? were you logged in as root? 
        On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 21:26, Michael wrote: 

               Hi all,    I had a little time so I tried  cfdisk
            /dev/hdd,  cfdisk /dev/hdd4,  cfdisk /dev/scd0, all of which
            got me a fatal error, press any key to return, and fdisk
            /dev/hdd, fdisk /dev/scd0 etc. etc. which resulted in unable
            to open disk. I don't have time right now to go into my boot
            config. file, I'm hoping to get to that tomorrow . Might I
            be doing something the wrong way?

            Thank you,
            Mike

                ----- Original Message ----- 
                From: Cyber Source
                To: nflug at nflug.org
                Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:55 PM
                Subject: Re: zip drive errors

                also to use /dev/scd0, check to see if you have
                something like hdd=ide-scsi in your boot config, check
                your /etc/lilo.conf file, I add that all the time, then
                tell whatever my ide cd-rom drive is, that it is
                /dev/scd0, this is a nice workaround as Linux seems to
                work much better with scsi emulation and the supermount
                command lines in /etc/fstab don't have a problem with
                xmms then, it is a pretty neat little work around 
                On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:50, Justin Bennett wrote: 

                    yeah use a blank disk, or even put one in with stuff on it. Try ding a fdisk
                    /dev/hdd and see if you can see the partitions on them. If it's been used in
                    windows you should be able to see the partitions, maybe it's not on 4...

                    Michael wrote:

                    > Justin,   the disks I've been trying to read have info written on them from
                    > various windows sessions and are IBM formatted as per the label. I'm
                    > figuring that I should still be able to read them as I can read floppy disks
                    > that have been used in windows. I will try a blank disk and give
                    > fdisk/dev/hdd a shot when my wife is done using my machine for her work. As
                    > for creating a FAT partition on partition 4, do you mean the zip disk
                    > itself?
                    >
                    > Mike
                    >
                    > ----- Original Message -----
                    > From: "Justin Bennett" <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
                    > To: <nflug at nflug.org>
                    > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:04 PM
                    > Subject: Re: zip drive errors
                    >
                    > > No is should be hdd. I have in internal one also. The parrelel version
                    > uses scsi
                    > > emulation over the parralel (spelling) port, and appears as a scsi device.
                    > The
                    > > ATAPI ide ones appear as hddx.
                    > >
                    > > Justin
                    > >
                    > >
                    > > Michael Osika wrote:
                    > >
                    > > > Pete,  I have also read in other sources on the net ( Linux Gazette )
                    > that
                    > > > it should be a scsi device but I wasn't sure if this was right. I'm
                    > willing
                    > > > to give it a shot but how do I go about changing from hdd4 to sda4, and
                    > > > being new to Linux, being specific is again appreciated. :-)   I have
                    > played
                    > > > around with different tools but have not found a way to change things. I
                    > > > don't want to meddle too much when I'm not sure what consequences will
                    > be.
                    > > >
                    > > > Mike
                    > > >
                    > > > ----- Original Message -----
                    > > > From: "peter" <pvant67 at wnyip.net>
                    > > > To: <nflug at nflug.org>
                    > > > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:24 PM
                    > > > Subject: Re: zip drive errors
                    > > >
                    > > > > Mike: the zip drive should be /dev/sda4, since it's a scsi device
                    > > > > internally, regardless of the actual type of interface used. At least,
                    > > > > that's what it wes on my parallel port model. I bet it's the same on
                    > > > > yours. Either way, keep us posted
                    > > > > --
                    > > > > "Truly, if Te is strong in one, all one needs to do is sit on one's
                    > ass,
                    > > > > and the corpse of one's enemy shall be carried past shortly."
                    > > > > -- spotted somewhere on Usenet
                    > > > >
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