Can't Mount File System w/Zip100
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Can't Mount File System w/Zip100
started by: DrWatt
Posted by DrWatt on Mar. 28 2006,15:31
Hi. I am having trouble mounting a zip100 parallel port drive with DSL 2.2 installed on my hard drive. The computer is an HP Omnibook 800CT, which has built in SCSI support (if that matters.) I have done the following. Inserted a zipdisk formatted (FAT) and written to with dos 6.22. After bootup typed the following commands:
modprobe ppa ###
--->computer responds by spinning zip drive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip
---> computer responds, "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev sda, or too many mounted file systems"
I get the same message if I try "msdos" as the file system on mount. Anyone have any idea what is wrong?
ps - I tried using sda4 as the article at
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/93 >
but sda's 1 through 10 didnt' spin up my drive as sda did.
Just a follow-up added later: I tried to boot DSL Ver 2.3 off an internal zip drive on my desktop using the "dsl zipboot" option and a floppy.That worked fine and it found KNOPPIX on sda4, as most others have reported. The same thing on the HP 800CT cycles through all the known sda's and finds nothing. I think the problem may be the built in scsi port that this laptop has may be interferring with the zip drive.
Posted by DrWatt on April 02 2006,17:00
I think I found the problem, in case anyone else has it. It turns out to be hardware, not software. I tried the same disks with DSL 2.3 on my desktop machine and they mounted fine. The same disks work on windoze on the laptop with the parallel port drive. Further research revealed that the cables on these parallel port drives are not really up to SCSI standards. The windoze drivers apparently make exceptions (error corrections?) for them, but the linux drivers less so.
Posted by roberts on April 02 2006,19:22
We all have heard of winmodems, but now.. wincables?
Posted by maxp_owers on April 04 2006,20:38
Hello, linux newbie, even more so with DSL (day 2)... I'm running off a 128 usb stick, and i want to access the various files on my SATA H/D. I'd like to be able to see both of it's partitions. Windows is on the first 15GB partition, and misc files on the other.
i know it's something like:
mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 (but i could use some clarification on that...)
but it says i'm not allowed to do it... when i type su it asks for a p/w
Anyone know what the default super user password is ??
Posted by cbagger01 on April 05 2006,04:34
Type:sudo su
to become "root"
FYI, you need specific DSL version 2.1b if you wish to talk to SATA drives. And then boot with command:
dsl sata