Mike McCallister wrote:
Folks,
I have been lurking here almost from the beginning of the list. You are a great group. I realize this question is only peripherally related to KDE, but I hope you can help anyway.
How can I get my system to recognize my external Iomega Zip drive? I have read the SuSE Help topics on mounting file systems, "using Zip floppies" and the "Iomega Zip Drive" and this has not been very helpful. I have added the following lines to my fstab file:
/dev/sdb /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb /zip msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0
but when I try to "mount zip" from Konsole, it complains that it can't find zip in fstab or mtab. When I type "mount /zip", it says /dev/sdb is "not a valid block device."
Any help much appreciated!
mount /dev/sda4 /zip does it for me with a parallel-port drive. If you have another scsi device in there, sda4 becomes sdb4. Make sure you load any modules you need if this does not work immediately. The 'auto' suggestion in the other reply was ok as well, but that '4' is important for the parallel-port zip. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html