From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 13:20:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3101F37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccimhc01.insightbb.com (sccimhc01.insightbb.com [63.240.76.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9B843EAC for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bryanc2000@insightbb.com) Received: from insightbb.com ([12.222.162.255]) by sccimhc01.insightbb.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20021014202027.RQC1309.sccimhc01.insightbb.com@insightbb.com>; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:20:27 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:24:07 -0500 From: Bryan Cassidy To: Linh Pham Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: My Zip Drive Message-Id: <20021014152407.4b8e7a1f.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <20021014114649.E20960-100000@q.closedsrc.org> References: <20021014131737.782f833e.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> <20021014114649.E20960-100000@q.closedsrc.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Linh Pham wrote: > On 2002-10-14, Bryan Cassidy scribbled: > > # I am using FreeBSD 4.6.2 I have a Zip Drive on my machine. I try using > # mount_msdos /dev/afd0 /mnt as root and I hear it trying to mount it > # but get a error saying Invalid argument. > > You may need to add the slice moniker to the device, i.e.: > > mount_msdos /dev/afd0a /mnt > > -- > > Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org > Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org > closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems > Well, I did what you said do and tried mount_msdos /dev/afd0a /mnt and still getthis [bryanc2000@insightbb]/home/bryanc2000# mount_msdos /dev/afd0a /mnt/ mount_msdos: /dev/afd0a: Invalid argument To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message