Please disregard my last post. I did follow directions and the following was my output. You may notice that I mistyped in a few places, but Konsole helped debug and then I corrected to the best of my ability. Thanks, -Joe Password: linux:~ # pico linux:~ # pico /etc/modules linux:~ # pico /etc/fstab linux:~ # create /mnt/zip100.0 -bash: create: command not found linux:~ # mkdir /mnt/zip100.0 linux:~ # cd /dev linux:/dev # mknod sda4b 8 4 mknod: missing operand after `4' Try `mknod --help' for more information. linux:/dev # mknod sda4b 8 4 -m mknod: option requires an argument -- m Try `mknod --help' for more information. linux:/dev # modprobe ppa linux:/dev # mknod sda4 b 8 4 linux:/dev # chmod u+r+w,g+r+w sda4 linux:/dev # chown rootdisk sda4 chown: `rootdisk': invalid user linux:/dev # chown root chown: missing operand after `root' Try `chown --help' for more information. linux:/dev # chown root sda4 linux:/dev # mount /dev/sda4 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device linux:/dev # lsmod | grep -e "ppa\|imm" ppa 12296 0 scsi_mod 131304 2 sd_mod,ppa parport 33864 3 ppa,parport_pc,lp linux:/dev # modprobe ppa linux:/dev # mount /dev/sda4 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device linux:/dev # mount /mnt/zip100.0 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device linux:/dev # modprobe ppa linux:/dev # modprobe parport_pc linux:/dev # mount /mnt/zip100.0 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device linux:/dev # mount /dev/sda4 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device linux:/dev #