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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie]
On Friday 19 October 2001 03:27 am, Khairil Osman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems
> fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on
> /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the
> zip icon, I get the following message:
>
> mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
>
> Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to
> solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse
> 7.1...
>
> Computer spec:
> K6-2 500
> HP CDRW
> IBM 15gig HD
> Seagate 20gig HD
> Creative AWE64
> WinTV
Well, I can tell you what I did to get mine to work, ymmv. Mine is an ide
250.
Fstab had it listed as a /dev/hdd4 but harddrake saw it: /dev/hdd
I changed /etc/fstab to: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0
and now I can mount it. I have supermount disabled still at this point. I'm
just happy I can manually mount everything now. :-)
So anyway, try changing your /etc/fstab to /dev/hdb and mounting it.
hth,
-s
I just did a right click on the zip icon and selected "properties>execute" clicked on the drop down arrow and reselected the device and it filled in the proper location and such. then OK and out and the icon functions as it should. HTH
Dennis M.
