Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in "/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this:
After I did as you suggested, messages contained:
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Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive
Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
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Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists:
Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4
Old device file: â/dev/hdd4
Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy
Disk controller: ---------------------
Mike
mkdir /mnt/ZIP
edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!)
none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change...
Mikkel --
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