From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: to mount an iomega 100 parallel drive one should only have to type (as su) mount -t vfat /dev/sda [taget dir] or one can first manually load the correct modules (to help the kernel?) as root: /sbin/insmod imm (in my case) or /sbin/insmod ppa (for other devices?) some documentation (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html) suggest unloading the module lp befor loading ppa and perhaps befor loading imm. in any case, dmesg reports: imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use SPP imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using SPP scsi1 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.67 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table which results in, iomega zip 100 (parallel) failing to mount /dev/sda reporting: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip/ mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to mount an iomega 100 zip (parallel) drive with redhat 9 (see description) 2. 3. Actual Results: mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device Expected Results: the drive should be mounted . Additional info: i have alos tried to use IOMega's own program for mounting disks, it fails as well, with whay looks like the same problem, just worded differently: #./iw -i /dev/sda IomegaWare for Linux Release 1.0 09/13/00 Failure accessing DEVICE: '/dev/sda'
if you are running the latest kernel, upgrade to the latest kernel reboot and try again to mount the zip disk...i had this same problem.. i dont remember what kernel i was runnning at the time but after i updated to the latest...everything worked fine mount the drive as follows mount /dev/sda4 -t vfat /mnt/zip
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