Many users seem to be bitten by this problem. This problem was reported during pre-8.1 testing. And it is serious enough.
<aside> I still believe it was an error to use devfs. It needs at least half a year of good testing. It just came too late. </aside> a.o.l.m: Message-ID: _QUt7.3292$bi6.85205@stones I had the same problem. Mandrake will create a /dev/hd? if you've got a disk in the drive during boot. You can them mount/umount at will. Does anyone know how to refresh/rescan the ide devices after boot? Enjoy... "Binoj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I just installed mandrake 8.1. It did not recognize the zip drive. When > I try to mount zip > > # mount /mnt/zip > mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist > > My fstab says > /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,user,exec,noauto > ,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 > > The zip drive is installed as the primary slave. Is there a module that > has to be loaded. > > When I checked /proc/ide/hdb/model it has recognized the zip drive and > also appended hdb=ide-floppy in lilo.conf during install. > > How do I create the device /dev/hdb (it is not there in /dev). I had > the autofs installed. Maybe this created the problem > > Also how bo I enable supermount. I tried supermount -i enable but does > not seem to work > > Thanks > Binoj
