[LBo] Upgrade to Feisty and zip drive problem

[Anita Lewis]

Here we go again.  I have a 100mb parallel zip drive.  I'm getting rid
of this thing.  No one factors it in to their automated device finding
scheme it seems.

Using udevinfo I find that this thing is supposed to be on /dev/sdb.
There is no partition number and the only /dev created are for sdax, the
hard drive, and /dev/sdb which I assume is for this zip device.

Previously I had a line in 20-names.rules for the zip drive.  The device
was found and then /dev/zip was created and I could mount that device.
Now that line creates /dev/zip which is a character device, not a block
device and I cannot mount it.

I think my problem is that I really don't know how the mounting is
working with Feisty and kernel 2.6.20 or whatever does this--udev?

If anyone has already figured this out, let me know.  Please do not
describe your /etc/fstab where you have /dev/sdb4 or whatever.  That is
not going to work with Feisty.

I imagine most people just are not using this old zip any more and I'm
not going to find a solution. That is ok, because I still have a copy of
my old system and I am probably going to just get a LaCie usb hard drive
for backups and be done with it until that becomes outdated, too.  I can
access my zip drive on the old system and move my zip disk data files
over to the usb hard drive.

Just curious if anyone has run across a lead on the problem.  Thanks,
Anita

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