After having used my Zip drive since FC4, I installed FC10. After install, the system tells me that the Zip drive is there OK. I put in a disk but the drive turns and the access light stays on but it won't mount. After that, it won't unmount either and the only way to fix the situation is power down and up again. The drive no longer appears when the "Computer" ikon is opened : floppy, yes, other HDs, yes, Kingston U stick, yes : but no Zip. I tried creating a suitable directory and then mounting, but it comes back and tells me that I must specify the file type. If I do that, it still doesn't mount. So, I went in as root, added a suitable line to fstab and fired up again : the same thing : can't get Zip to mount. This is frustrating as I regularly use these to store little bits of useful data without wasting blank CDs and previous FCs operated the drives OK. Again, suggestions would be appreciated. CroombeFP
Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
After having used my Zip drive since FC4, I installed FC10. After install, the system tells me that the Zip drive is there OK. I put in a disk but the drive turns and the access light stays on but it won't mount. After that, it won't unmount either and the only way to fix the situation is power down and up again. The drive no longer appears when the "Computer" ikon is opened : floppy, yes, other HDs, yes, Kingston U stick, yes : but no Zip. I tried creating a suitable directory and then mounting, but it comes back and tells me that I must specify the file type. If I do that, it still doesn't mount. So, I went in as root, added a suitable line to fstab and fired up again : the same thing : can't get Zip to mount. This is frustrating as I regularly use these to store little bits of useful data without wasting blank CDs and previous FCs operated the drives OK. Again, suggestions would be appreciated. CroombeFP
It would help to have some more information. What interface does the ZIP drive use? (SCSI, IDE, USB) What messages do you get in /var/log/messages when you put the disk in?
Try removing your changes in /etc/fstab, and see if hte disk gets mounted in a directory off of /media when you insert the disk.
Mikkel
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Croombe F. Pensom croombefp@sympatico.ca wrote:
After having used my Zip drive since FC4, I installed FC10. After install, the system tells me that the Zip drive is there OK. I put in a disk but the drive turns and the access light stays on but it won't mount. After that, it won't unmount either and the only way to fix the situation is power down and up again. The drive no longer appears when the "Computer" ikon is opened : floppy, yes, other HDs, yes, Kingston U stick, yes : but no Zip. I tried creating a suitable directory and then mounting, but it comes back and tells me that I must specify the file type. If I do that, it still doesn't mount. So, I went in as root, added a suitable line to fstab and fired up again : the same thing : can't get Zip to mount. This is frustrating as I regularly use these to store little bits of useful data without wasting blank CDs and previous FCs operated the drives OK. Again, suggestions would be appreciated. CroombeFP
What type of drive is it? USB or Internal IDE? I recently used a USB Zip 250 to clean off all my disks before putting it in a garage sale and it worked perfectly under F10 (x86_64).
Richard
On Monday 02 February 2009 15:05:59 Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
After having used my Zip drive since FC4, I installed FC10. After install, the system tells me that the Zip drive is there OK. I put in a disk but the drive turns and the access light stays on but it won't mount. After that, it won't unmount either and the only way to fix the situation is power down and up again. The drive no longer appears when the "Computer" ikon is opened : floppy, yes, other HDs, yes, Kingston U stick, yes : but no Zip. I tried creating a suitable directory and then mounting, but it comes back and tells me that I must specify the file type. If I do that, it still doesn't mount. So, I went in as root, added a suitable line to fstab and fired up again : the same thing : can't get Zip to mount. This is frustrating as I regularly use these to store little bits of useful data without wasting blank CDs and previous FCs operated the drives OK. Again, suggestions would be appreciated. CroombeFP
I had exactly the same experience with a USB LS120 drive, but that was in trying to get it to work with F9. Although no-one said so specifically, it was implied that the kernel could not be expected to support such dinosaurs. Like you, I'm sorry to see it useless. There are still odd times when it would be helpful, particularly in these days when few computers have a floppy drive (the LS120 reads standard floppies as well as its own disks).
Anne
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