Hi Len,
With regard to your ZIP trouble, you might want to try and mounting a
_partition_ on the zip drive, not the whole drive itself...
If the zip is formatted with winXX you might want to try the following as
root:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt
this will mount the vfat formatted partition nr 4 on the currently loaded
zip-disk on the /mnt directory entry. For some reason, winXX formatted
disks are set to partition 4.
hope this helps,
avi bercovich
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Avi Bercovich bercovic@swi.psy.uva.nl
Sinjeur Semeynsstraat 9 Dept. of Social Science Informatics (SWI)
1183LD Amstelveen University of Amsterdam
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Len Smith wrote:
> I am attempting to deal with several issues with RH 6.0 Linux (2.2.10) on
> the SGI Visual Workstation that I am unable to resolve. I am sure that the
> resolutions are quite simple, but I have tried the HOWTO route and asked
> others without success. Normally I am reluctant to seek help, opting to
> work the problem out for myself, but I seem unable to do so in this case.
>
> First, I recently installed an SGI supplied IOMEGA ZIP-100 into floppy bay
> #2 on the VWS. It installed easily and it works correctly under NT. It is
> recognized by Linux as "hdd" on the third probe during boot. I am unable to
> mount the device. The HOWTOs reference SCSI drives (this is an IDE, I
> believe) or parallel-attached devices. So I can't find support assistance
> for internal drives. Do you have any guidance in this area?
>
> Also, I am having difficulty accessing COM1 on the VWS. I get an error on
> "setserial -g /dev/ttys0" or "/dev/cua0" under root. Both devices are
> present and seem to be correct. The port works correctly under NT. If I
> try "setserial auto_irq skip_test autoconfig" I receive a "device not found"
> error. If you have guidance here I would be grateful as well.
>
> I thank your for your time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Len Smith
> lsmith@systemdynamix.com
>
>
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