On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:56 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
When I first started looking for an answer, I found the suggestion to create the /dev/hdx4. They put a script in boot.local to do this every boot. It didn't work for me
It wasn't created, or if created did not work?
Did anybody try setting the sticky bit?
As I remember (I'm bad at making notes), it was created but I still couldn't mount the disk. No one had suggested the sticky bit and I didn't try it.
Some reformatted the disks with linux filesystems and mounted at hdx1.
I do that with some disks, but not all of them, I use zips for interchange. But I'm still using 9.1, and from the parallell port, I can't duplicate your problem.
I have only seen a couple of post about problems with 9.1 and zip drives. I don't think those were related the hdx4 issue. I think that appeared with 9.2.
I played around with mounting at partition 4 (as in all other distros/releases I've used) then tried 1, 2, and 3 with no luck. I don't know why I tried hdx with (no partition) but it worked!
Funny. The other partitions will not work, unless formatted that way. But yes, I remember the issue being comented here, on list.
I knew it had always mounted at hdx4, but I was tired and ready to try anything! That was easy to try and I've been surprised before when something worked in an unexpected way. Since mounting at /dev/hdx I have had no problems. I can read/write and even export through nfs so other machines can use it.
I haven't had the time or desire to find out why this is. I probably wouldn't understand it anyway.
I understand. But, did you report to feedback? They really should know about this problem.
No I haven't. I just figured this was the 'new' and 'undocumented' to mount a zip. In another email in this thread you said: "However, I think that the reason the device file is deleted every boot, as some seem to report, should be worth investigating." I truly can't say from personal experience that the device gets deleted. The suggestion I read said to put the script in boot.local so the device gets created on each boot. I just assumed it was deleted everytime and had to be recreated. Doug