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Justin Bedard wrote: > > Hello, > > I have this IOMega internal zip drive for my Dell Inspiron 7000. I have a zip > disk the was used under NT. When I'm on a Windoze box, I can read the data > just fine. When I try to mount the zip drive under Linux, I get the following > message. > > [1003 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, > or too many mounted file systems > > When I'm outside of X, the mount command spits out a little more stuff but > comes to the same conclusion. > > When I issue the mount command, there is activity in the zip drive. So I have > the right device. > > /mnt/zip does exist: > > [1006 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ ls -ld /mnt/zip/ > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 12:31 /mnt/zip/ > > And there's nothing in it: > > [1007 - jbedard@mzilla jbedard]$ ls -l /mnt/zip/ > total 2 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 12:31 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Jul 22 13:58 ../ > > I doubt it can be wrong fs type. I only really have 2 choices, right? vfat & > msdos. Both yield the same messages. > Did you use NT to format the disks? You might have an ntfs on them in which case you have to include provisions for ntfs in a kernel compile. Also you can attempt mounting the disk by hand using different file systems. mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /mnt/zip mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc /mnt/zip I think that win95 and 98 both have built in provisions for reading NT file systems. -- 0 0 L & R Associates " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug