USB ZIP drive "not a block device" error

[Bernard mentink]

Hi All,

Well I've finally got the drive to work. :-D

Using fdisk -l, I was able to determin that the partition was sda1 not 
sda4 and the file-system was fat16.
Doing a mount on sda1 did the trick. Ye-ha. It seems the error messages 
were a bit of a red-herring.

Thanks to every-one that helped me out.

By the way, is there a format command that I can use to format the 
device as a vfat file system, as I need to read the disks
on a x86 machine at work.

Cheers,
Bernie.


Stefan Bruda wrote:

>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
>