On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > After I did as you suggested, messages contained: > > ------------ > > 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 > > ------------- > > 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 > > 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: > > 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
It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. Mike
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