On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 1:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 05:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > It's about amending your fstab to set automount . > > > I know how to set rom and writer to automount , > > > but I have never owned a zip drive, and therefore > > > cannot advise on that. > > > > I have a usb LS120 drive, which is set up like this: > > > > /dev/sda /mnt/LS120 auto > > user,iocharset=iso8859-15,dev,sync,codepage=850,suid,umask=0 0 0 > > > > Does that help? Every now and then I lose contact with it, even > > though it is constantly plugged in, and have to switch it off, > > then on again for it to be recognised anew. I think that's why > > supermount found it difficult (sm works fine on everything else > > here), so I set it to auto. I then just use KwikDisk to > > mount/umount as necessary (it puts an icon on the kicker, so it's > > really quick and easy) > > > > Anne > > Here is the entry for my Zip drive without supermount: > > /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 > > I have a question though - what advantage is there in clicking an > icon on your kicker with KwikDisk to mount, versus me just clicking > my zip drive icon on my desktop to mount? > > Just curious, or am I (as I freq. do!) missing something? <grin>
Not a lot, I think <g> I just don't have a desktop icon. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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