[LBo] Missing directory

[Howard Rosen]

Jim,

I think you answered the question.  When I first attempted a mount of
the zip drive, I had recently pulled the zip disk and left the drive
empty.  More than likely that was the cause of NOT seeing a disk and
thereby no /dev/sda4.

Howard

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:41 -0500, Jim Westbrook wrote:
> Do a cat of /etc/fstab, first without the drive attached, and then with 
> it plugged in.  You will likely find that the system is "seeing" the 
> drive as some other device (sda1 e.g.).
> 
> I have a similar difficulty occasionally with my digital camera on a usb 
> connection.  Usually, it's /dev/sda1, but once in a while it gets 
> recognized as /dev/sda3.
> 
> JimW
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >  
> >