Hmm, I didn't mention my cd-roms. But, I do have a problem with the one
that's a burner; if I try to access it my machine locks up. Hard. The
only way to break out of it is a cold boot (power switch). Civileme
tried to help me with it but I never did get it to work.
As far as the fd* entries in /dev, there are a lot of them. I only have
one floppy, and it's called /mnt/floppy, linked to /dev/fd0. It is the
only device attached to the floppy bus, so you would think that fd0
would be correct. The fstab entry for the floppy and zip are as follows:
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
/dev/zip is a link to hdd4. Is that correct? I know that the zip drive
is connected to the EIDE bus at hdd, but why would it be hdd4?
Thanks
Jay
> But the other thing to do is check your symlinks.
> Make sure the devices are linked properly. I know
> there is an issue with burners not linking properly.
> By any chance is one of these cd-roms a burner?
>
> A quick way to check for this is to look in your /dev
> directory and ls -l cdrom*
>
> If you see cdrom, cdrom1, and cdrom2, then that's
> likely a problem.
>
> For example, I have my DVD player as master of my
> second IDE and my burner as slave on the second IDE.
> Therefore I deleted my bad links (rm /dev/cdrom*) and
> created new ones:
>
> ln -s hdc cdrom
> ln -s scd0 cdrom1
>
> I then updated /etc/fstab changing all references of
> cdrom2 to cdrom1. I removed cdrom2 from /mnt and
> created /mnt/cdrom1. Then I was good to go.
>
> Maybe that's the issue you are having with your
> cdroms. I have never owned a zip drive so I have no
> idea of how they are supposed to be set up. But if
> you know how it should look, make sure it is linked
> properly as well.
>
> If the link is bad, you will get that EXACT error that
> you are having. That is what it would say to me until
> I fixed my cdrom links.
>
> Hope that helps. Write again with more detail if this
> doesn't fix the problem.
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