Iomega Zip100 parallel port Mandrake 8.0, write FAT impossible ?
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Thank you for your reply. I can say that since one month I tried *absolutely* all the posiibilities. This is not my fstab nor mount commands which are the reason of my problem... Do you are using zip100 disks written in Windows ? Can you format them under Linux ?
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried it : it doesn't work. But it can't work,
because my zip is on parallel port, so it is a "SCSI" drive,
and it can be seen by the system only as SDx
(S as SCSI, D as Disk, x is a for the first drive, or b for the second, or c etc.).
Anyway SDA works fine in read. It writes too, and formats also, but without effect,
because it is not able to write the FAT.
If you do a dmesg command, you will see as all your devices are known
from the system. Maybe that works on your system because your drive
is on IDE and not on parallel port ?
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