I ditched the "sync" item--no change. REverted to "auto" from "msdos" and got "you must specify filesystem type". Feeling like I'm getting close... Mike On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:53 am, Franklin Maurer wrote:

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What info, about the zip, is in your fstab? Mine uses sda4 for pc zips, but then again mine is a scsi. I forget the logic behind it but i found it in the archives awhile ago. Here's the line from my fstab ... /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 HTH

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CWSIV, While I can't speak with certainty, I'm thinking you probably have nothing to worry about. I did not have the zip drive attached when I installed 8.0, but I did plug it in later. Have to admit this was one of those times when I missed having Windows go "Oh, there's some new peripheral attached. Do I have a driver?" I've never really had a problem with SuSE not recognizing hardware on install, going back to v5.3. Just afterwards. Mike On Tuesday 03 June 2003 1:30 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

I am wondering what was changed in SUSE to make this a problem. In 7.3 personal the zip drive was not only recognized but mounts on click in KDE 2 without a problem. I did no direct config file editing.

As I intend to continue using the drive I am wondering If I should keep this one setup as is and put 8.2 on the other box.

Of course I didnt do a custome install but let the system do what it needed.

What config file should I study in 7.3 to see what went right?

CWSIV

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Yes, that worked, but now my fstab entry apparently is not right. Here's what I have: /dev/sda /media/zip msdos noauto,user,sync 0 0 Shell now complains: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems I also tried vfat, but that didn't work either. More hints? Mike On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:55 am, Rouvas Stathis wrote:

Mike McCallister wrote:

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Hi folks!

I have an old external Zip-100 Parallel Port drive that I cannot get mounted on my 8.0 system (Kernel 2.4.18-4GB). The other night I tried again. YaST2 hardware info shows the drive and gives it a mount point of /dev/sda. I edited fstab to point to /dev/sda and added a pointer to the /mnt directory. When I attempt to mount this (via KDE or bash), I get the following error: "mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device."

The help (more than a little dated, I suspect, since it was written for v6.3) suggests running modprobe for ppa. Here's what happens:

/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: insmod ppa failed

Try:

modprobe imm

-Stathis.

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:15:53AM -0500, Mike McCallister wrote:

Yes, that worked, but now my fstab entry apparently is not right. Here's what I have: /dev/sda /media/zip msdos noauto,user,sync 0 0

You need a partition number. Probably /dev/sda4 unless you specifically changed it yourself... "auto" for the type should work, too...

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:15, Mike McCallister wrote:

Yes, that worked, but now my fstab entry apparently is not right. Here's what I have: /dev/sda /media/zip msdos noauto,user,sync 0 0

Shell now complains: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems

I also tried vfat, but that didn't work either.

More hints?

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