On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:25:46AM +0100, Audun Arnesen Nordal wrote:
> 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

For sure the d partition is bogus, but e looks good.
What does 'fdsik wd1' says ?

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

There should't be. Does the kernel print error messages ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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