Fwd: Re: [PLUG] Should be a TRIVIAL fix ...

[guy1656]

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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PLUG] Should be a TRIVIAL fix ...
Date: 29 Jul 2003 11:51:26 -0700
From: Kort E Patterson <kort at overalltech.net>
To: guy1656 at ados.com

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:55, guy1656 wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Should be a TRIVIAL fix ...
> Date: 28 Jul 2003 18:19:48 -0700
> From: Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com>
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 10:24, guy1656 wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am running Mandrake 9.0
> >
> > Trying to get an IOmega external zip drive to work again.
> > It USED to work, but no longer does.
> > I USED to mount it with the command mount mnt/zip1/
> > (returns guff*) then mount mnt/zip/
> >
> > and I could use the drive. When this didn't work, I was told to try
> > rmmod usb-storage
> > modprobe usb-storage
> >
> > and that was cool, because it worked.
> >
> > Then it stopped working.
> >
> > I had a Linux consultant come over, and after THREE & A HALF HOURS,
> > he had the following comments:
> >
> > - Having problem accessing zip250 usb drive.
> > - System finds drive in /proc/bus/usb
> > - Raw contents exist at /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> > - /log/messages finds drive at /dev/sda
>
> This is good, any partition information?
>
> Was fdisk able to display any partition information on /dev/sda?

Didn't try fdisk.  The partition info seems to be intact since it was
possible to access the drive using vmware/win2k.  This also indicates
that the hardware and disk are working and properly formatted.

> > - attempting to mount drive returns "too many file systems open" or
> > "not a block device" errors
>
> What exactly did you try to mount? I believe that the stock formated zip
> drives mount as /dev/sda4, even though there is only one partition.

I did trying mounting both sda and sda4.  I fact, since I've gotten
tricked by similar situations with other media, I tried mounting all
possible variations - sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4, sda5, etc.  All returned
"not a block device" errors except sda, which returned "too many open
file systems or bad superblock" errors.


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Kort E Patterson
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