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[jrodman@xxxxxxxx (Josh Rodman)]

Hello Richard,

* Richard Klein (Richard.Klein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [990428 04:08]:
>  hi
> 
> I just reinstalled Suse again with kernel 2.2.6 but my zip drive does not 
> work. It gives an error that it is not a valid block device.
> 
> I just type
> mount /dev/hdb /zip -t vfat
> (that should work)
> 
> Can anyone help me? two days ago it all worked fine but after 
> reinstalling suse it does not work anymore :-(

Well.. My first thought is "Don't reinstall".  Although this is not
necessarily helpful at this point, in general reinstalling linux is not
relevant to fixing problems unless you have broken things as root and
can't remember what you did to break them.  This isn't windows folks.

On a more useful note, what kind of zip drive is this?  ATAPI (IDE),
parallel, SCSI?  SCSI and ATAPI should simply be a matter of being sure
you have the SCSI driver set up if you use SCSI, and mounting the disk.

Parallel can be more tricky, as the 2.0.36 parellel port driver fights
with the zip ppa driver.  Under 2.2.6 they can coexist, but of course you
built this kernel yourself so I have no idea what modules you built and
how you built them.  You might see what is in /lib/modules/2.2.6 and you
might look at /usr/src/linux/.config to remind yourself what you did.

> Kind regards
> Richard Klein

Best of luck,

-josh

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