Dear SuSE list users,
I have just solved my problem dealing with mounting removable
media!
I had some hints from isupport@suse.de and some of you here on the
list.
Thanks!! Here is a look at the problem and solution.
Under SuSE 6.3 there were some Support Database Articles that tell
users of
removable media such as SCSI ZIP drives (Iomega) how to mount
their cartridges.
The article pointed out that these DOS or M$ formatted carts have
partitions 1 thru 4.
So it tells the user to create a fstab entry that looks like the
line below:
/dev/sdb4 /rwmo auto noauto,user 0 0
^
then to mkdir /rwmo
and then to issue:
linux# mount /rwmo
to complete mounting the removable carts.
And here is the BUG:
Sometime between 6.3 and 7.1 SuSE, something changed!! Now the
user
MUST NOT set the fstab entry for the removable drive to a
partition # .
the entry must be set to /dev/sdb (SCSI) or /dev/hda (IDE)
only.
once the fstab entries are correct, the user can mount both SCSI
MO carts
and LS-120 'super floppies' with out trouble. I'm sure that SCSI
ZIP drives
will work this way as well, but I don't have one to test.
Another observation: I have installed 7.1 several times now on
three different
machines using YAST 1 & 2. But the installs did not create fstab
entries or
KDE device icons for any of the removable media drives; either
LS-120
'super floppies' or SCSI r/w Magneto Optical cartridges; even tho
I made sure
that there was media in the drives during each install.
Michael???
Is this an oversight?
Cool observations:
When I installed SuSE 7.1 on a machine that had NT4 on it, YAST2
made the correct
fstab entries and KDE device icons for all of the FAT and NTFS
drive letters of the NT4
partitions.
On that same install there was a 7 CD SCSI 'Changer" that can hold
7 different CDs and
mount any one CD. The CDs are SCSI LUNs "logical unit numbers".
Well I was pleasantly surprised to see that YAST2 had created
fstab entries
and KDE device icons for each CD (lun)!!
Great work SuSE!! .................... Pete VC
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Peter B.Van Campen
Peter_B@vancampen.org
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