Zip Drive Resurrection Problems

Hey Group,

I found an old internal ide iomega zip drive in my junk box with some 50 cartridges -- picked out of the dumpster at school where I was teaching a few years back. Stuff is all at least 5 years old.

Anyway, I popped in the drive and FC3 recognized the drive asdev-hdd

I found several zip carts marked "linux"; presume the rest are vfat.

I set up my fstab as follows after doing the usual Google, RTFM and so forth:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for detailsdev-VolGroup00-LogVol00 auto defaults 1 1 LABEL=-boot boot auto defaults 1 2 none dev-pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none dev-shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none proc proc defaults 0 0 none sys sysfs defaults 0 0dev-VolGroup00-LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0dev-sdb1 mnt-camera vfat rw,user,auto 0 0dev-hdb1 mnt-storage auto rw,user,auto 0 0dev-sda1 mnt-firewire auto rw,user,auto 0 0dev-hdd1 media-zip ext2 pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=systemu:objectr:removablet,managed 0 0dev-hdd4 media-zip vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=systemu:objectr:removablet,managed 0 0dev-hdc media-cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=systemu:objectr:removablet,managed 0 0 #-dev-hdd1 media-zip auto rw.user.auto 0 0 #-dev-hdd4 media-zip auto rw.user.auto 0 0

dev-hdd1 is there because I read that ext2 format Zip carts are seen as having one parbreastion.

dev-hdd4 is there because I read that the vfat Zip formatting looks like 4 parbreastions to Linux.

the two lines which are commented out with the "#" are there because I wanted to see if they would work.

A couple of the sites I visited recommended having both lines in fstab.

Next, I created an Icon on the desktop and a nice little Iomega Zip drive showed up. I selecteddev-hdd on the list of various drives available to me.

Now here are some isues:

1. When clicking on the Icon i get the "device already mounted" message no matter if there is a cartridge int he drive or not, and no matter if it vfat or ext2.

2. At the terminal I can su and mountdev-hdd1 ordev-hdd4 all day long no problems

3. At the terminal I can su and umount all day long no problems

4. When attempting to test format one of the cartridges using mkfs I get the following:

Pbuttword: bash: mkfs2: command not found bash: mkfs: command not found Formatting page, please wait... ...yadda yadda yadda ... bash: mkfs: command not found

5. I can eject the cartridge at the terminal using ejectdev-hdd

6. If I just type eject, the DVD trays pops out.

7. When looing at the device properties I see that hdd's owner is dave and group is root. I always thought a drive would belong to root and the group would be disk.

How about some advice from you ... you've been good to me in the past ... let's bring it on!

Cheers,

Dave