tester wrote: > Maureen L. Thomas wrote: > >> I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not >> the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like >> this: >> >> /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto >> user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 >> when I try to mount with the icon I get the following message: >> >> mount special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist >> I know it is probably something really simple, but I just can't figure >> it out. Your help is greatly appreciated. >> Maureen >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > In this case you need to create the device > > mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 > > Civileme > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ack Typo mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 68
is what it should be major 22 is ide channel secondary minor 64+partition number is slave drive and partition number combined. Civileme
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