[PARPORT] Re: your mail


grant@torque.net
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:24:32 -0400 (EDT)


> I recently installed slackware, and I am trying to get my Iomega Zip to be
> recognized by linux. I have recompiled my kernel (2.0.35) with ppa and
> scsi support. When linux boots, its appears my zip is detected, yet the
> partition type is unknown. I'm booting with a disk in the drive, and the
> disk is a working msdos disk. I am unable to mount the disk for the same
> reason, -t auto tells me unknown partition type... must specify. Any help
> would be great. I'm including a portion of my dmesg output.
 
> Partition check:
> sda: unknown partition table

What does fdisk tell you if you do 'fdisk /dev/sda' ?

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