Trouble mounting Zip drive

[Kevin Kinsey]

Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:

> At 17:19 05.07.2005, albi at scii.nl wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
<snip>

>> did you try mounting it as root ?
>> (and what does /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg say about it ?)
>
>
> Uhh.. embarrasing :-O (yes, I was not root!
>
> Well, still have a problem as root (I've had this problem from the 
> start when I WAS logged in as root):
>
> # mount /zip
> mount: /dev/da0s4 on /zip: incorrect super block
>
> /Andreas


Is the filesystem really "ufs" as noted in /etc/fstab?  IIRC,
trying to mount a non-ufs filesystem as ufs will give this
error.  Other possibilities include a bad disk ... :-(

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey