On Monday 20 December 2004 06:11 pm, Doug B wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 05:19 pm, David Johanson wrote:
This has definitely not been my experience as chronicled on this list. What has been surprising to me is the almost total lack of response to the problems I've been detailing such as phantom drives being listed, drives not being found, and apparently total inability to deal with ATAPI zip drives. At this point I'm looking into other distributions. Up through 9.0 I felt like SuSE was THE distribution to own, but I'm beginning to change my opinions more and more with each subsequent release since 9.0
I do have to agree on the zip drive thing. I still haven't looked into that. I rarely use the drive any more.
I finally got around to looking into this. With the old way of do this , the fstab entry looked like: /dev/hdb4 /media/zip vfat user,defaults 0 0 Well, there is no /dev/hdb4 on this machine. every /dev/hdx had a fourth partition expect the one my zip was hung on. I tried create the device, but no luck. Finally I tried /dev/hdb (no partition number) in fstab: /dev/hdb /media/zip vfat user,defaults 0 0 I can now read the disk just fine. It has not been repartitioned or formated. They are the same files on the same partition as when the drive was in a 9.1 box using /dev/hdb4 (actually hdd4 on that other box.) I still think a lot of the flack distros are taking can be traced back to kernel development. Without a 2.7 testing/development branch, things move into the 2.6 kernel too quickly. Have fun! Doug