Thanks to Andrew Williams, Michael Zabielny and Dylan for offering suggestions on mounting my Zip drive. Unfortunately, nothing's working. I've tried adding /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb4, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4 (not at the same time!) with appropriate settings to /etc/fstab, rebooted the system, logged in as both plain user and super-user. Every time I run mount (with a Zip disk inserted), I'm told /dev/whatever "is not a valid block device. I am manually creating new /zip and /dzip directories under /mnt in Konqueror (ah-hah! A KDE tie-in!) as I edit /etc/fstab. Is that where I'm going wrong? Or should I be creating a 0-byte file instead (there I go, showing my ignorance of the *nix filesystem again)? Thanks again! Mike On Monday 12 August 2002 10:06 am, Andrew Williams wrote:
mount /dev/sda4 /zip does it for me with a parallel-port drive. If you have another scsi device in there, sda4 becomes sdb4. Make sure you load any modules you need if this does not work immediately. The 'auto' suggestion in the other reply was ok as well, but that '4' is important for the parallel-port zip.
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