On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 
> This is because yours identifies as an IDE hard disk, not as an ATAPI device.
> What does 'disklabel wd1' say when there is a ZIP inserted ?

'disklabel wd1' says (as included in my original message):

# /dev/rwd1d:
type: ESDI
disk: IOMEGA  ZIP 100 
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 32
tracks/cylinder: 12
sectors/cylinder: 384
cylinders: 512
total sectors: 536870911
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  d: 536870911        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -1398101
*)
  e:   196192       32      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-510)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0


Are there any obvoius reason why I can't 'mount_msdos /dev/wd1e /mnt' ?

Regards,


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Audun Nordal