Error formatting Zip disk

[Mike Little]

An Iomega 250 Zip drive is connected to a Mesh laptop
via a USB port.
The PC is booting up from Kanotix2005-04 installed on
a hard drive partition.
The intention is to partition a Zip100 disk which is
formatted as FAT to have both FAT and ext2 partitions.
Qtparted is started in a Konsole window.
Space is freed up by resizing the original FAT
partition. An ext2 primary partition is created. 
The format command is applied to the ext2 partition
and a bug warning message appears in Konsole window.
parted version 1.6.25.1
Assertion (type !=NULL) at ../../libparted/filesys.c:
404 in function ped_file_system_create() failed

Left click on the Zip drive desktop icon gives a
Konqueror window titled /media/sda

and then error message viz:-

Could not mount device
The reported error was
mount wrong fs type, bad option. bad superblock on
/dev'sda4,
missing codepage or other error

Note that sda4 is the FAT partition.

Command line outputs
dmesg | tail

VFS:    Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda4
VFS:    Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda4
VFS:    Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda4
VFS:    Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda4

parted /dev/sda1 print unit s print unit chs print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda1:    0kB – 2097kB
Disk label type:        loop
Number  Start   End             Size            File system     Flags
1               0kB     2097kB  2097kB  ext2
Disk geometry for /dev/sda1:    0s – 4095s
Disk label type:        loop
Number  Start   End             Size            File system     Flags
1               0s      4095s           4095s
Disk geometry for /dev/sda1:    0,0,0 – 0,65,0
BIOS cylinder, head, sector geometry: 0,255,63. Each
cylinder is 8225kB.
Disk label type:        loop
Number  Start   End             File system     Flags
1               0,0,0   0,65,0          ext2

fdisk -l /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 2 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

fdisk -l -u /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 2 cylinders, total 4096
sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table





                
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