"Peter B. Van Campen" wrote:
If I understand you right there may be a solution for you. I also thought that the partition number of the removable media drive had to be specified on a separate fstab entry along with a associated mount point thus: /dev/hda1 /cart1 .......... ^ ^ But I found that something has changed since 6.3. Now I have ONLY been using carts that are formatted on M$ w98 & NT4 as "big floppies" not as hd or anything else. In the past SuSE 6.3 has demanded that you mount the 4th partition of a removable cart formatted on a M$ sys. But now (7.1) it seems that the sys beheaves more like a M$ system; you make a fstab entry for the device only; no partition number is specified. Now when I issue "mount /rwmo" it mounts the M$ cart as vfat. The real CONFUSION FACTOR is that now (7.1) fdisk -l /dev/hda is returning GARBAGE illogical output when /dev/hda or /dev/sdb is a LS-120 or a SCSI MO cart. I have no idea why this is; but it confused me for a long time! If you are trying to mount carts formatted other than M$ VFAT I can offer no help, sorry.
Maybe what is going on here is that when these disks/cartridges are formated in Windows, they aren't being partitioned. For example, with floppy disk you don't mount a partition on the disk - you mount the whole device, e.g. /dev/fd0. Windows is probably treating these disks as floppy disk as well (which, under some circumstances, is reasonable) and just formating the whole device. This would also explain why you get rubbish out from fdisk - because there is no partition table on the disk to read. I think the '4th partition' rule was only applicable to zip disks, due to some strange formatting that they have (AFAIK, zips are treated differently to floppies in Windows). If this isn't the case, then maybe the kernel has been updated to cope with these anomolies. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\