Iomega Zip 100

[Michael C. Thorogood]

Craig Brown wrote:

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>> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:10:51 +0100
>> From: retuow at xs4all.be (Wouter Eerdekens)
>> Subject: Re: Iomega Zip 100
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Message-ID: <20041230121051.GA6080 at moose.haggis.ale>
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>> Hello Craig,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:58:46AM -0500, Craig Brown wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I just installed Ubuntu 4.10 and it seemed to detect my hardware 
>>> except when I tried to mount my zip drive it says:
>>> *mount: special device /dev/hdc4 does not exist
>>>   
>>
>>
>> udev is responsible for (not) creating the necessary devices. When udev
>> creates the devices, there indeed isn't a /dev/hdc4 if you didn't insert
>> a ZIP diskette during the boot process.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> *My */dev* directory does not have a *hdc* device there, however when I
>>> run the command: *dmesg | grep hdc
>>> *It returns:
>>> *hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>>>   
>>
>>
>> See above.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> *I checked my fstab and there's not a listing for hdc there.
>>>
>>> How can I make my zip drive work in Ubuntu?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Try booting with a ZIP diskette inserted. It ain't pretty, but it should
>> work.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wouter
>>
>>  
>>
> Hello Wouter,
>
> I want to say thanks in advance for your help.
> I tried the reboot with the disk in the drive and it's still the same,
> the dmesg output was the same and still entry fstab.
>
> I tried running MAKEDEV -v hdc in the /dev dir and the output was:
>
> Darkstar:/dev# ./MAKEDEV -v hdc
> create hdc      b 22 0 root:disk 0660
> create hdc1     b 22 1 root:disk 0660
> create hdc2     b 22 2 root:disk 0660
> create hdc3     b 22 3 root:disk 0660
> create hdc4     b 22 4 root:disk 0660
> create hdc5     b 22 5 root:disk 0660
> create hdc6     b 22 6 root:disk 0660
> create hdc7     b 22 7 root:disk 0660
> create hdc8     b 22 8 root:disk 0660
> create hdc9     b 22 9 root:disk 0660
> create hdc10    b 22 10 root:disk 0660
> create hdc11    b 22 11 root:disk 0660
> create hdc12    b 22 12 root:disk 0660
> create hdc13    b 22 13 root:disk 0660
> create hdc14    b 22 14 root:disk 0660
> create hdc15    b 22 15 root:disk 0660
> create hdc16    b 22 16 root:disk 0660
> create hdc17    b 22 17 root:disk 0660
> create hdc18    b 22 18 root:disk 0660
> create hdc19    b 22 19 root:disk 0660
> create hdc20    b 22 20 root:disk 0660
>
> Then I did ls -l hd*
>
> Darkstar:/dev# ls -l hd*
> brw-rw----    1 root     plugdev    3,   0 Dec 30 11:18 hda
> brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom      3,  64 Dec 30 11:18 hdb
>
>
> Craig
>
I have a usb zip 100, which works fine with warty.  The device shows up 
in fstab as /dev/sda.   I don't need a disk in when I boot.  My zip disk 
is formatted with ext2.  I remember some issues removing the default 
write protection on the disk, using a windows program.