USB ZIP drive "not a block device" error

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Hi again,

Yes, of course it won't mount ;-) ... that was the original problem, it is 
mount'ing sda when I get the "not a block device error" message. ..... really 
frustrating, it should work just like you say.

Bernie

> 
> Hi.
> 
> At 19:47 +1300 on 2002-10-7 Bernard mentink wrote:
>  >
>  > It looks allright to me, also the output from *dmesg*:
> 
> Yep. Looks good to me too!
>  
>  > usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
>  > scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>  > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 02.U
>  > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>  > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>  > SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
> 
> This one looks precisely as I would expect. So, according to all of
> these, you seem to have /dev/sda ready to be used. Have you tried to
> mount it? For instance, put a zip into the drive and do (as root)
> 
>  mount -t xx /dev/sda /mnt/cdrom
> 
> where xx is the type of the filesystem you have on the zip--also try
> auto for xx, it might work (and feel free to change the mount point
> from /mnt/cdrom to anything you like).
> 
> I have read reports that you should specify /dev/sda4 instead of
> /dev/sda but the latter looks to be the one for your system.
> 
> After all--and despite the errors--the thing appears to work, so you
> should find the zip when you change to /mnt/cdrom (or whatever mount
> point you chose above). Does it?
> 
> Let me know if it works and I will try to make sense of the error
> messages (and perhaps offer suggestions on how to get rid of 
> them :-) ).
> 
> Stefan
> 
> -- 
> If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
> it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
>  --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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