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Internal Zip problem (Mandrake 8.2)

  • 18-08-2002 9:28pm
    #1
    afdarcy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭


    Had Mandrake 8.0 installed, but decided to upgrade to Mandrake 8.2 over the weekend. Under M8.0, my zip disks would automount fine, but now it doesn't work. A quick gander at /etc/fstab informs me that /mnt/zip is the mount point for /dev/sda4. But I don't have any scsi devices, and my zip drive used to be /dev/hdd under M8.0. Maybe this setup is for external Zipdrives?

    Anyway, M8.2 seems to use devfs, which is confusing me no end. My Zipdrive is secondary IDE slave, so there should be /dev/hdd symlinked to /dev/ide/bus1/target1/lun0 or something, right? How do I get devfs to do this?

    Can anyone help?

    A


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  • #2
    flamegrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭flamegrill


    Have you tried mounting it by hand?

    mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip -t vfat (the -t is optional :))

    /dev/sda4 is a typical setup for external drives yes.

    edit the fstab if the manual mount works.

    The kernel will autodetec any IDE device tbh, and there isnt much you can do only re-compile it to add new compatibility.

    But the standard kernel has support for it. I think the manual mount will work thou :)

    Regards,

    Paul


  • #3
    afdarcy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭afdarcy


    Yep, tried that - it says device does not exist. Tried changing /etc/fstab by hand (just in case), but no joy. Checked /dev, and there's no hdd symlink.

    Weird thing I noticed when I checked the Mandrake control centre - it reports zipdrives on /dev/sda4 (zip100) and /dev/hdd (zip100 ATAPI), but /dev/sda4 seems to take preference. The only time I was able to get any activity out of the drive was when I ran diskdrake and checked the partition table of /dev/sda.

    I'll probably compile a new kernel anyway - might give devfs a miss, I was doing fine without it...

    A


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