First, I am rebuilding my linux box right now but here is an extremely odd problem I hit tonight. I am trying to use my external, parallel port Syquest sparq drive. A) All the drivers loaded fine. paraide.o ---> epat.o --> pd.o and looking in dmesg it reported the drive as being recognized and the little light flashed. B) Now mounting the drive.... ]# mount -t vfat /dev/pda1/ /mnt/sy/ and ]# mount -t vfat /dev/pda1 /mnt/sy This command would report an error that the mount point /mnt/sy/ was not a directory, when infact it IS. So, I unmounted a windows drive, since this is a dual boot system and tried to remount it to the same dirrectory using the appropriate command simmilar to the one above, IT DID NOT WORK !! C) So next I tried to get back the windows drive by doing... ]# mount /mnt/WinD and it worked perfectly becuase this was declated in my /etc/fstab so I made this entry to my /etc/fstab file... /dev/pda1 /mnt/sy vfat noauto,rw,user 0 0 and then did ]# mount /mnt/sy and there the drive was...... So why did B not work? This is my preferred method for mounting the drive as it moves around a lot.... -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
