[LBo] /dev/sda4

[Howard Rosen]

Anita,

Thanks for the comments below.  I've been meaning to investigate this
udev, as it seems recent and I did see in in SuSE 9.3, as well as 10.1.

My wife and I took a break from the house and drove to Bristol, Pa on
the banks of the Delaware River, where I had a chance to think about
this problem and the emails and it seemed to make sense that /dev/sda4
was only available as needed.  I'll investigate and see what else is
there.

Howard

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:18 -0400, Anita Lewis wrote:
> On 09/04/2006 12:39 PM Howard Rosen wrote:
> > Anita,
> > 
> > I shut the computer down, took a shower, shaved and presented myself to
> > the computer nice and clean.
> > 
> > Then I opened a terminal and look what happened:
> > 
> > linux:/home/hrosen70 # modprobe imm
> > linux:/home/hrosen70 # mount /dev/sda4 /media/zip100.0/
> > linux:/home/hrosen70 # ls /media/zip100.0/
> > Burtch  Favorites  Howard Lillian  Howard & Lillian  ira  irs_2006
> > Linux  NNdbase.txt
> > linux:/home/hrosen70 #
> > 
> > Yes, the last line - response to ls - are what are on the zip drive.
> > Now how do we explain what previously happened?  Thanks for your
> > support.
> > 
> > Howard
> > 
> > 
> 
> Devices are created as they are needed with udev.  To avoid the problem 
> of whether the device is /dev/sdb4 or /dev/sda4 or whatever, you can 
> make it irrelevant so that the zip will always be on /dev/zip.  In fact, 
> that may already be in the udev rules.
> 
> First check to see what the info on the device is:
> 
> $ udevinfo -p /sys/block/sda/sda4 -a |less
> 
> http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/using/using_udev tells you more. 
> Specifically look at the Zip section.
> 
> Now that I'm using Edgy, the syntax has changed a bit so that it is 
> using double equal signs, but I don't think you will encounter that in 
> SUSE 10.1 yet.  You can tell when you look at the files in 
> /etc/udev/rules.d  There may be a rule already there for Zip drive, but 
> it might be the one that creates the /dev/sda4 or whatever.  It seems 
> better to me to use /dev/zip as what it gets loaded on.
> 
> Then in /etc/fstab I have /dev/zip  /media/zip (I decided to use /media 
> rather than /mnt since that seems to be the standard now.
> 
> Anita