On 28 May 2000, Pixel wrote:

> > Here it worked a little different.  It created /mnt/floppy to /dev/hdb
> > (which is the LS-120), but the LS-120 disks must be mounted as /dev/hdb1
> > for it to work. 
> 
> quite strange. works non formatted here... is it common place to have it
> formatted (like zip's which is on hdX4)

The ls-120 was formatted to ext2, but it always does to hdb1.  I've also
got a SCSI ZIP drive on the server that is always at sda4.  I think it has
to do with the way the disks/drives are done?  I'm not sure, but it's
always worked that way for me.

> >  I prefer a mount point of /mnt/ls-120 (what if there is a
> > real floppy in the system?), but that's a nitpicker point.
> > 
> > The thing that I found odd was in the LILO setup it made an entry for
> > floppy pointing to /dev/fd0 when there is no floppy in this system (only
> 
> quite strange. maybe i missed something again :-/

I think so... I was a little surprised to see /dev/fd0 in there when it
doesn't actually exist in this system... =)

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