On Friday 30 November 2001 13:36, you wrote: > > I tried to reanimate (once again) my zip drive when booting with > > 'devfs=mount'. > > The problem with the current configuration is the missing of part4 dev > > node. It is only automatically generated when a ZIP media is inserted > > during > > boot. > > It must be working in current cooker kernel (old ide-floppy bug) and is > being corrected in public driver in slightly different way (Chmouel, it > probably will obsolete my patch). >
Your mentioned patch is probably linux-2.4.10-ac10-ide-floppy-devfs.patch, isn't it? I'm not a C programmer or kernel expert, but after boot devfs only knows, that there is a drive (without partitioning info). The problem is, that mount does not trigger a new lookup for the drive partitioning. > Are you using cooker kernel? If not what is the point of posting it > here? > > -andrej
