Hi Mark, I presume that you mean USB rather than USM? Well on the basis that you are having a problem with a USB attached zip drive: The device although attached via USB is supported via a SCSI emulation, along the same lines as supporting a CDRW (needs ide-scsi as kernel option, in addition to SCSI support within the kernel). The device /dev/sda4 is the special file interface to the zip drive supporting a vfat filesystem. Check out your /etc/modules.conf, you should see the following: alias block-major-8 sd_mod This associates devices (such as /dev/sda) with the major id 8, as scsi devices. Now assuming you are using the standard SuSE 7.2 vernel "2.4.4-4GB", check out the file /boot/vmlinuz.config. What is the disposition of each SCSI parameter (ie. y/n/m)? Parhaps you could post these? Maybe you could also post any (possibly related) messages generated during boot (but not too much!)? Finally, are you using /devfs? Kind regards, Simon Ps. Note that I am NOT an expert in this area. However I do have a working system which incorporates a USB attached zip drive. Mark Annandale (by way of Mark Annandale ) wrote:

Hi Guys

I have the same problem. My Zip drive is the USM 100Mb version. Fstab says /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto no auto, user 0 0. However when I click on the zip icon I get mount: /dev/sda4: unknown device.

If I try and mount /media/zip I get the same error.

The xconsole is showing an error message stating 'can't locate module block-major-8.

Can anyone shed some light on this please.

Thanks

Mark A