Re: Booting error using ATAPI ZIP as SCSI

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:27:31 +0100 (BST)


> Can anyone tell me what the MEDUIM ERROR means and how do I correct it? If
> I try to mount the ZIP manually, I get a "Can't read block device" error
> messgae. When I shutdown, all the filesystems seem to hang and won't
> unmount.

Medium error is a message from the drive thinking the disk is unreadable.
Quite how you got it if the drive/disk work fine in windows is the question

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