[LBo] Upgrade to Feisty and zip drive problem

[Howard Rosen]

/sbin/modprobe imm

is added to the file:

/etc/init.d/boot.local

My distro is still SuSE 10.1

Howard

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 16:56 -0400, Howard Rosen wrote:
> Anita,
> 
> You once correctly said that I would not have any success with udev for
> mounting my zip drive.  I have never had any success using udev.
> 
> I still use my zip drive almost daily.  I have added "modprobe imm" to a
> file, whose name I cannot recall, but is in one of my notebooks.  Of
> course, as you also wrote herein, the fstab is correctly setup for the
> zip drive on /dev/sda4.  I find that if during boot there is a physical
> zip disk in the drive, then there will be a /dev/sda4, but if the disk
> is not present during boot, then there is also no /dev/sda4.  I've also
> written a script for mounting all of my cdroms and the zip drive.  I
> also use in fstab "users" which allows mounting as a user, instead of
> root.
> 
> Here are 3 lines from /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/cdrom       /media/cdrom         auto     ro,auto,users,exec    0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder  /media/cdrecorder    auto     rw,auto,users,exec    0 0
> /dev/sda4        /media/zip100.0      auto     rw,auto,users,exec    0 0
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Howard
> 
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:09 -0400, Anita Lewis wrote:
> > 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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