USB Zip Drive Mount

[Musjunk22]

How do I mount a usb zip drive in Suse 9? It's not on the KDiskFree list. Sorry for the noob question, I'm just starting to learn.

 

[maintb]

Do you know if the system sees it or not? Have you tried the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script yet. It will show if it sees the device or not. The script is at http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh. Once you know that the system sees it, you can try finding the device name by fdisk -l /dev/sc?. If that doesn't show it try fdisk -l /dev/sr?. Then try mounting the device it shows is your drive. You do't have to do the script first you could try to just find the device.

Hope this helps.
Dan

 

[horndude]

as root try lsusb and see if its listed, also check dmesg and see if usb is activated and if the drive is detected at boot up

you do this from a terminal screen as root by the way

if its listed under lsusb mount it wherever you want,I'd make a temp directory under your home directory and put it there

mkdir /home/<your_username>/zipdrive
mount /dev/usb/<whatever_drive_is> /home/<username>/zipdrive
cd ~/zipdrive
ls

Or once you figure out what its called device wise under linux you could at it to your /etc/fstab file and it will mount automatically on its own