> > No. place a "/sbin/modprobe sg" line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>
> This is now there:
> /sbin/modprobe sg
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
You don't actually need this at all, FWIW. It'll all happen
automatically, at least if you have Mandrake 7.
> > Now read and write a mounted zip disk and read a mounted CDROM to
> > check.
>
> The CD reads OK, but an attempt to mount the Zip gives:
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/zip
> mount: /dev/zip is not a block device
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/sg4
> mount: can't find /dev/sge in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> The reason for the "sge" is that sg4 is a symbolic link to sge. That
> made me think the link should be from zip to sgd (since its IDE device
> is hdd), but changing that didn't help. Here's my current fstab (the
> commented stuff is what works with IDE):
I think you want /dev/sga4 (the fourth partition of the first device)
rather than /dev/sgd (the entire span of the fourth device).
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