Andrew Moore wrote: > > Hi I posted a message earlier but this was before I was completely up to > spead on the mailling list. Maybe a response has already been post. I > using Mandrake 7.1 and on a machine that had been using Redhat 6.0. > Under Redhat my floppy worked (not my zip drive). When I look in > linconfig I see that both the floppy and the zip are configured like so > > dev mount point file system > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy super*** > /mnt/zip /mnt/zip super** > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom super** > > to my unskilled eye this seems wrong, shouldn't the dev be something > like /dev/fd0 or /dev/hdc. Note the cdrom is set up the same way and it This is exactly how it should look. > The error message I get when I try to access these drives is "Unable to read >directory /mnt/zip/ Message from system: Input/output error" I don't know anything about zip drives but on your floppy, are you trying to read DOS or Linux formatted disks? Most systems will set things up to read DOS disks (using Fat as the option in fstab). If you insist on using linuxconf to check this stuff, look under the "options" tab and it will tell you the type of file system it's looking for. In my opinion, as long as you've got a dual-boot system, all your stuff should be stored on Fat systems as Linux is smart enough to read/write them and you can also read the stuff in Windows. Cheers --- Larry
