Trouble mounting Zip drive

[albi at scii.nl]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:14:50 +0200
Andreas Widerøe Andersen <andreas at wideroe.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm having problems mounting a SCSI Iomega 100 Zip drive on my 4.11
> RELEASE  system:
> 
> -> From boot, this is what I see:
> 
> da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> da0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 E.08> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C)
> 
> -> In my /etc/fstab i have this line:
> 
> /dev/da0s4              /zip            ufs     rw,noauto       0     
>  0
> 
> I have mkdir a /zip directory
> 
> This is the problem:
> 
> $ mount /zip
> mount: /dev/da0s4: Operation not permitted

did you try mounting it as root ?
(and what does /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg say about it ?)