Zip250 ATAPI

[DaveT47]

I'm running RH8. It sees my internal zip250, but when I mount the drive - the filenames are gobblygook - can't read the filenames at all. I checked fstab and the drive is being mounted as vfat (which is correct), but something isn't right. Anyone have a solution? I've already checked the iomega site - nothing there.

DaveT47

[dbfruth]

I had the same problem on my zip drive until I reformatted the drive. You might try to format it using FAT32 if you plan on using it in a windows box. or if you are just going to use it with linux change the format to ext2.

[mdwatts]

Could you please post the zip250 entry from your /etc/fstab.

I wonder if adding 'iocharset=utf8' to the above would help. Might...

[DaveT47]

fstab line is:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip250.0 vfat noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

[mdwatts]

May help...

Add iocharset=utf8

to

/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip250.0 vfat noauto,owner,kudzu, 0 0

so you have

/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip250.0 vfat noauto,owner,kudzu,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Insert a zip disk and mount using

mount /mnt/zip250.0