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Chris Hokenson wrote:
> 
> hello,
> i've just recieved my slackware 7.0 cd and boot disk in the mail.
> i'm really happy....but i cant use it yet.
> 
> i need to partition my harddrive first, and i was told there is a program
> called something like "fips" or somethign that can do this, instead of using
> a windows program to partition my drive.
> 
> once i get that done i would appreciate it if someone could point me in the
> right direction for installing it.
> 

Read this:

http://www.slackware.com/install/

Allen
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HI,

I'm a newbie and I have a similar problem.  I have a jaz 2 gig drive
installed on the system already (it worked previously) but now I can't
mount the drive so I can read it's contents.

In the fstab it shows as:
/dev/sda4 /jaz ext2 noauto 0 0

I type:
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4 /jaz

and I get:
scsi0: medium error on channel 0, id 4, lun 0, cdb: Read (6) 00 00 41
02 00
Current error sd08:04: sense key medium error
additional sense indicates unrecovered read erro
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 2
EXT@-fs:unable to read superblock
mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock or /dev/sda4, or too
many mounted file systems

Sometimes I've gotten the message that says that block 0 is damaged.

How do I format this jaz disk? I'd like to be able to copy the contents
of the current settings on the hard drive as I'd like to convert the
machine to win95 then reinstall linux?  I don't mind deleting any
existing data.

thanks in advance.


In article <D9iW4.185$Un6.568985@ratbert.tds.net>,
  "Chris Hokenson" <hokenson@uslink.net> wrote:
> hello,
> i've just recieved my slackware 7.0 cd and boot disk in the mail.
> i'm really happy....but i cant use it yet.
>
> i need to partition my harddrive first, and i was told there is a
program
> called something like "fips" or somethign that can do this, instead
of using
> a windows program to partition my drive.
>
> once i get that done i would appreciate it if someone could point me
in the
> right direction for installing it.
>
> thanks
>
>


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In article <8gsbuf$dcr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, molina@go2mall.com wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I'm a newbie and I have a similar problem.  I have a jaz 2 gig drive
> installed on the system already (it worked previously) but now I can't
> mount the drive so I can read it's contents.
> 
> In the fstab it shows as:
> /dev/sda4 /jaz ext2 noauto 0 0

only use this if you only want to mount ext2 filesystems only, never a fat jazz disk.
I use the first p[artition for ext2 filesystems so that dev/sdk1 is ext2, and sdk4 is fat when a
dos disk is inserted. or read the ,man fstab file for adding filesystems.


> How do I format this jaz disk? I'd like to be able to copy the contents
> of the current settings on the hard drive as I'd like to convert the
> machine to win95 then reinstall linux?  I don't mind deleting any
> existing data.
> 
> thanks in advance.
>

mkfs,  it will let you format a valid partition.

Here's what I'd do...

1.  In the /etc/fstab file, in your jazz entry, change the ext2 to vfat.
2.  Create a directory called /jazz in your / directory.   i.e.,
mkdir /jazz).
3.  When mounting, just type "mount /jazz".  This is, of course,
assuming that all of your drivers are preloaded..but according to your
output, they are.  I'm assuming you either have them already compiled
in or loaded manually.

Your error also has hints of a bad disk or disk drive (nothing new
about that one!).  You may wanna contact Iomega about it...

Hope this helps,
Dan


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Hi,

The best way to format your jaz disk is :

1) fdisk to rewrite the partition table. There u'd choose what
filesystem you want on your disk
2)mke2fs or mkdosfs or ..., depending on the filesystem you want to use.

This should work but ... I have the same problem as you when i try to
reformat : sense key medium error ... I haven't found a solution yet.

If you get a clue, please let me know.

Eric

In article <8gsbuf$dcr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  molina@go2mall.com wrote:
> HI,
>
> I'm a newbie and I have a similar problem.  I have a jaz 2 gig drive
> installed on the system already (it worked previously) but now I can't
> mount the drive so I can read it's contents.
>
> In the fstab it shows as:
> /dev/sda4 /jaz ext2 noauto 0 0
>
> I type:
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4 /jaz
>
> and I get:
> scsi0: medium error on channel 0, id 4, lun 0, cdb: Read (6) 00 00 41
> 02 00
> Current error sd08:04: sense key medium error
> additional sense indicates unrecovered read erro
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 2
> EXT@-fs:unable to read superblock
> mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock or /dev/sda4, or too
> many mounted file systems
>
> Sometimes I've gotten the message that says that block 0 is damaged.
>
> How do I format this jaz disk? I'd like to be able to copy the
contents
> of the current settings on the hard drive as I'd like to convert the
> machine to win95 then reinstall linux?  I don't mind deleting any
> existing data.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> In article <D9iW4.185$Un6.568985@ratbert.tds.net>,
>   "Chris Hokenson" <hokenson@uslink.net> wrote:
> > hello,
> > i've just recieved my slackware 7.0 cd and boot disk in the mail.
> > i'm really happy....but i cant use it yet.
> >
> > i need to partition my harddrive first, and i was told there is a
> program
> > called something like "fips" or somethign that can do this, instead
> of using
> > a windows program to partition my drive.
> >
> > once i get that done i would appreciate it if someone could point me
> in the
> > right direction for installing it.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>
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