On Sat July 12 2003 06:15 am, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi James, > > > /home>mount /zip > > mount: /dev/sdc4 is not a valid block device > > If the zip drive indeed is the third (pseudo) scsi device (/dev/sdc) > try changing /dev/sdc4 to /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab. I don't know why > Red Hat automatically wants to use partition #4. Maybe it depends on > the partitioning of the zip disk, but it doesn't work for me either. > The zip disk I occasionally borrow from a friend is mounted using > /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda4 as Red Hat configured initially. > > Bye, > Leonard.
Redhat sets it up as the 4th partition by default because that's the default on Windoze. I suppose the assumption is a lot of linux users will be reading Winders disks, or that they'll just reformat the drive as-is instead of fixing it for their own use. Too bad there isn't a way to autoselect which partition is used so normal (linux) users aren't stuck trying to conform to the dumb (One MICROS~1 Way) methods of doing things. I should actually say that I'm not aware of any ways of doing it, not that none exist. Since I rarely use a zip I haven't really bothered to investigate it thoroughly. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
