[LBo] Zip drive mounting before and after disk in drive

[Howard Rosen]

This is dmesg after a succesful mounting of the zip drive.  Zip disk was
in the drive during boot up.
>From dmesg, line 300 as found by dmesg | grep -n sda
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda4
>From /etc/fstab
/dev/sda4     /media/zip100.0      auto       rw,noauto,users,sync   0 0

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This is demesg before the disk was in the drive during boot.
hrosen70 at linux:~> grep -n sda dmesg.before (a text file from dmesg.)
hrosen70 at linux:~>

Notice that there is no finding of "sda" within the dmesg execution when
the zip drive is devoid of a disk during boot.

Here is a line from /etc/fstab.
16:/dev/sda4  /media/zip100.0      auto       rw,noauto,users,sync   0 0

As we can see the problem was not with fstab.  It seems that if the zip
drive does NOT have a disk in it during  boot, then /dev/sda4 is not
made, while when a disk is in the zip drive during boot, then dmesg
tells us that the zip drive is seen as /dev/sda4.

I guess there was something to be learned from this for all of us.  Glad
that I don't have to do anything heroic.

Thanks to all who offered support.

Howard