Am having trouble accessing internal (ATAPI) 250MB Zip drive under 9.0 RC2. Upon first booting, can insert a zip disk and access drive (either from command line or using KDE URL icon I created). However, if this is ejected and then re-inserted, problems occur. Now, clicking on icon results in KDE/Konqueror error message: "Unable to enter file: /mnt/zip. You do not have access rights...." Attempts to access the drive from command line (even as root) produce I/O error messages. In addition to the error message from Konqueror, clicking on the icon causes a harddrive icon named dynamic_mnt_zip to appear on the desktop. Once this problem occurs, I have found no way to get zip drive to function again except for rebooting! Have noted these odd factors during this problem: /etc/fstab has had the zip line removed, while /etc/mtab has two zip entries (the one that is there when system boots, and another one at the end of the file after USB, which is missing the sync option).
Am also encountering problems with FAT filesystem corruption when deleting files from Zip disks. This was also a problem under MDK 8.2. Clusters are not properly freed, so that the free space on a Zip disk constantly decreases, even if files are deleted. Disks can be repaired using dosfsck (which confirms the corruption). Hard for me to understand how supermount could cause this, but simply editing fstab to remove supermount from the zip drive eliminates the corruption. Also, the same corruption occurred under 8.2 with FAT floppies (I have not verified this on RC2). Norm Carver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
