On Sunday 22 January 2006 15:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2006-01-22 at 12:53 -0500, Joe G wrote:
rewritten this, I only stated that it SEEMS to recognize my zip and automatically added the line in question. I did not state that it did, only that it SEEMS TO. And it really did seem to; the device flashed.
Ok, ok, lets try a wild idea. Leave the fstab line as it was:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0 vfat noauto,user 0 0
create /mnt/zip100.0
and then, create the device node (be careful with your spelling!):
cd /dev mknod sda4 b 8 4 chmod u+r+w,g+r+w,o-r-w sda4 chown root:disk sda4
If you have problem with the syntax, check the man pages. I haven't tested this, so you have to try yourself.
This is not the correct method to create device nodes when using udev, but as udev is not creating it, lets try with a hammer ;-)
Then, try to mount. If it doesn't, do:
lsmod | grep -e "ppa\|imm"
to see if the respective module was loaded; if not, do so with modprobe. I think it is ppa for zip100, imm for 250. I'm not fully sure, I'm going by memory.
But, on the bright side, I believe that I have indeed found a workaround for this. I'm going to remove the parallel port zip drive, drop kick it into the garbage can, and buy a usb zip drive. (The usb port comes up on the drop down menu in Konqueror for a Zip drive.)
Don't!
Not yet, at least. At worst, donate it ;-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hi Carlos, the line mknod sda4b 8 4 requires an argument (location?) Thanks, -Joe