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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory External Lacie USB hard disks Post 18787 by LivinFree on Wednesday 3rd of April 2002 08:10:11 AM
Old 04-03-2002
You may need to specify to the mount command which filesystem you're mounting, in the case of mounting FAT volumes. If I recall correctly, the command would be something like "mount -t msdos /dev/blah /mnt/my_blah". Check the man page to be sure...

And I'm not sure is /dev/sd* is right for a USB device, although I've never tried mounting one myself. Typically, Linux systems use /dev/sd* for SCSI and /dev/hd* for IDE drives. What you can do is use the "dmesg" command in Linux to get a replay of the bootup messages, then read at your leisure:
dmesg | less
Look for a reference to your ZIP drive (assuming it was plugged in when you booted) - it should mention the device name with it.

If you can't find it in the dmesg output, post back, and we'll look a few other places...
 

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NAME
f1tattoo - disc T@2 feature for Yamaha F1 CD-RW devices SYNOPSIS
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You can disc T@2 with these drives: Yamaha F1 CD-RW, Yamaha F1DX DEVICE
can be an IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB or FireWire connected optical drive. Not all SATA controller support all Plextor features. Linux: /dev/hdX: IDE device /dev/scdX: Linux 2.4: SATA, SCSI, USB device, or IDE device via ide-scsi emulation /dev/srX: Linux 2.6: IDE device via new ATA layer, SCSI or USB device OpenBSD/NetBSD: /dev/rcdX FreeBSD: /dev/cd: SCSI device /dev/acd: ATA device MacOS X: /dev/disk: win32: C:,D:,E:, ... X:,Y:,Z: OPTIONS
-l, --scanbus scan busses for all available CD and DVD devices. -h, --help help. show available options. -c, --current show current drive settings of selected device -s, --supported show supported features of selected device --tattoo-test write DiscT@2 test image --tattoo-raw tattoo.raw write DiscT@2 using raw data from tattoo.raw file --tattoo-png tattoo.png write DiscT@2 using png image from tattoo.png file check if f1tattoo compiled with png support using --help option -v, --verbose give verbose output EXAMPLES
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