[LBo] Missing directory

[Howard Rosen]

Anita,  Thanks for your quick reply.  I'll try to answer all of your
queries.

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:36 -0400, Anita Lewis wrote:
> On 09/04/2006 11:29 AM Howard Rosen wrote:
> > Today I tried to mount my zip drive and received the following message:
> > 
> > mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist
> > linux:/home/hrosen70 # ls /dev/sda4
> > /bin/ls: /dev/sda4: No such file or directory
> > 
> > As you can see, /dev/sda4 is nowhere to be found.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Howard
> > 
> > 
> 
> I forget what you are running, Howard.  Did you do any upgrades 
> recently?  What distro, kernel?  Do you know if you are using udev or 
> hotplug?
Running SuSE 10.1 - now called openSUSE10.1 (or something like that) -
and udev is part of the mix.
> 
> Mounting devices has changed radically over the past year or two and I'm 
> doing my best to keep up with it.  I had some major problems with my 
> recent rocket experience into Ubuntu Edgy and the 2.6.17 kernel.  That's 
> why I have more questions than answers for you.
> 
> Oh, yes, another question?  Have you been plugging anything else into a 
> port lately?  

Nothing plugged in recently.  Setup is laserjet printer, floppy drive, cdrom,
writable cdrom, zipplus.
Is /sda4 something that someone with the same distro can copy
the /dev/sda4 to me?  If so, that should be an easy cure.  If not, it
looks like re-installing an upgrade of what I am currently running
should do it.

Howard
> 
> Anita