The 4 in there means: "the fourth partition in the first (a) HD". Don't know quite how this applies to ZIP-drives. But then again: if you say it works that way, well... That's the way it works. ;-) On Mar 31 Thorsten Brenner wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Now my Zip-Drive is running. > The peculiar thing is, that the Drive was recognized as /dev/hda. > In a german HOWTO of installing Zip-Drives i read that IDE-Drives can > only be mounted as hdd or hda4. > I turned the hda in my fstab to hda4 and my Zip-Drive works fine. > The stupid thing, I have no other IDE-Drives and i canīt understand > why i have to mount it as hda4. > Has anybody a idea. > > By Thorsten > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgium tel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... ------------------------------------------------------------ Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
