Gentlemen! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Disabling devfs did the trick -- my ZIP drive now works as expected!
I truly appreciate your assistance, Dennis & Charles -- you two led me to the solution, and I would not have gotten there by myself. Warm up your brains -- I've got one more small problem to contend with, and I'll post it later today (probably). Thanks again! -drew -----Original Message----- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:25:22 -0500 "Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running devfs=mount... What are the implications of changing it to > =nomount? Will it break anything? If not, I'd be willing to try it. > > Not completely sure if I will upgrade to 8.2. I want to get the > current system running well, and then I will consider upgrading to the > 8.2 PowerPack. > No running devfs=nomount will not break anything and in fact in 8.1 on many systems it is a help. The drawback is that devfs is here to stay and eventually the ability to load devices will be removed from the kernel and be completely controlled by devfs. For now if you want to try devfs=nomount, go for it. I would change the hdd=ide-scsi append to hdd=ide-floppy and replace the sda4 entry in fstab to that which Dennis noted. It could work, you won't know for sure unless you try. > > Are you running with devfs=mount or with devfs=nomount? With =mount > > dev handles the loading of device modules, with =nomount the kernel > > handles that task. I was able to get my drive working with > > devfs=mount. > > > > Does ls -l /dev/sda give any out put? > > > > Are you planning to get 8.2.? > > I am not trying to pass the buck, but devfs in 8.1 is pretty > > flaky but in 8.2 it does the job as intended, though it was > > necessary for me to edit fstab and create an entry for sda4, > > but the block device itself was created so it was not > > necessary to screw around with MAKEDEV or mknod. > > > > > > Charles > > > > > >
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