Le Samedi 27 Octobre 2001 07:49, Borsenkow Andrej scribit : > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > USB Zip 100 > > > > fstab single listing: > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,noauto > > 0 0 > > > > I just noticed this yesterday. > > This is a 2nd system and is not used as much so the situation could be > > either recent or an exixting one. > > > > If I boot with a disk in the drive I can mount and umount /mnt/zip at > > will but if I boot with NO disk in the drive if I attempt to mount > > /mnt/zip I get > > error:device /dev/sda4 does not exist. > > Your Mandrake version? > lsmod when you try to access it and it does not work > cat /proc/scsi/scsi
it's a known problem. remember ide zip internal problem : Re: Possible bug in ide-floppy.c Re: [Cooker] Internal ide Zip devfs problems? De : Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> � : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : 08 Oct 2001 18:08:28 +0200 Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nothing. IMHO grok_partitions should register at least .../disc node to > > allow access to media. Chmouel? > > look fine in that case Kevin, i'm not sure of the side effect of > setting a dummy value for empty floppy.. I tried to reproduce with 8.1 (2.4.8-26mdk) with a IDE ZIP100 and... it works for me. Actually it seems to be because I did the install with a disk in drive; it created the correct /lib/dev-state stuff and whenever I reboot without a disk or I software-eject the disk, the /dev/hdd4 an /dev/ide/... files always stay present (e.g. they are never unlink'ed). Now, when the dev-state stuff is removed, effectively I can reproduce the problem. Whenever you software-eject the disc, the files disappear. The only way to see the disk is to manually create the device node. The only solution apart patching the kernel code seems to be to use the ide-scsi interface for the ZIP drive, and to use the file "/dev/scsi/disc?/part4" as special device file, to "see" the partition table even when you boot with no disc in drive (/dev/sda4 and /dev/scsi/host0/... both don't work). -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Tout a �t� dit�; mais comme personne n'�coute, il faut toujours r�p�ter. Andr� Gide
