On Jan 12, Kevin Boylan wrote:
> >> Kevin....if youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify
> >> as hdd4 (partition 4).
>
> I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen.
>
> But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean
> dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive
> would be dos formatted.
>
> On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip
> drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add
>
> /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
>
> to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the
> drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or
> does it have to be created in any special way?
You need to specify the partition. If it's factory formatted, try /dev/hdd4:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto defaults 0 0
-Michael
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