>Seeing the posts about Zip drives prompted me to resume trying to mount my parallel port zip drive. I searched the archives and... >Viola!! I found the appropriate information.. >modprobe ppa >mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat >Question is... >After adding mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat to etc/fstab, do I need to tell modprobe ppa to run on every bootup, or is it a one time deal? >If I need to run it every time, what is the "autoexec" for Linux? >Thanks, >Bryan Had to reboot my machine last night. On bootup, (when fstab was "mounting"), I got an error that basically says I will need to run modprobe pp _before_ the zip drive can be mounted. Is there any way to either tell modprope ppa to execute before fstab OR set something where modprobe ppa will not need to be run again? Thanks Again, Bryan