Latem Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 (edited) Hi, I have an Iomega Zip 100 USB Zip Drive, and I dont know if I am using it right. This is how it was always from the beginning. I had a Zip Device on my desktop, (unmounted icon), and a mounted icon "Zip Disk". The only options for this item are "Open" and "Properties". Clicking on "Properties" the general tab, gives the name "devscsihost1bus0target0lun0part4mntzip", and Location: /(devices). Everything worked fine most of the time. This is how I used it. I insert a zip disk into the drive, and then dbl click on the zip disk icon, and be able to use it fine. when I was finished I just ejected the zip disk. This was always odd to me bacuase I thought that I should have just the Zip Device icon, and then when I insert the zip disk I would do "mount", or it would automatically mount, and a new Zip Disk icon will appear. When I am finished I would right click on Zip Device and Unmount, and then eject. But whatever I accepted it how it worked. But sometimes it would screw up, and I would dbl click on zip disk, but nothing would be showing up, just an empty folder (the zip disk wasnt empty). I think trying mount in this case gave some error, and I had to create a new device (Zip) on my desktop, and then delete one of the 2 icons when I was finished. Today something different happened. I inseted the disk, and it auto mounted and changed the existing Zip Disk icon's text to "Zip Disk (part4) [mnt/zip]", and also added a new icon (mounted zip disk) with text "Zip Disk (part4) [mnt/zip2]". Only the zip2 would work, and clicking on zip1 would just give me an empty folder. Also now there are two zip folders in /mnt zip and zip2. So my question is if I am using zip correctly, and if not how do you use Zip Drives? I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Should I just delete this new zip2 folder in /mnt. It's chmod @ 777 just like zip, and floppy. But I am the owner of zip2, instead of root. Wird thing is my brother has never had any problems using the zip disk, and I think he has been using it the same way as me. here's my Zip Device desktop config file: [Desktop Action Eject] Exec=kdeeject %v Name=Eject [Desktop Entry] Actions=Eject Dev=/dev/sda4 Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=zip_unmount MountPoint= Name=ZIP Device Name[en_US]=ZIP Device ReadOnly=false Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=zip_unmount X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel and my brother's: [Desktop Action Eject] Exec=kdeeject %v Name=Eject [Desktop Entry] Actions=Eject Dev=/dev/sda4 Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=zip_mount MountPoint= ReadOnly=false Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=zip_unmount X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel Thanks, Latem Edited August 28, 2004 by Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latem Posted August 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 (edited) Ok I got it fixed by changing fstab, but I am not sure I understand everything: this is how my fstab looked like: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 this is the new one: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /mnt/zip vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,exec,quiet 0 0 any comments? thanks, Latem Edited August 28, 2004 by Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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