might be an fstab error? or is it not finding the drive at all through USB? 
do you boot thru LILO? is the "append " statement in lilo.conf "devfs mount"? 
or "nomount"? is the drive mounting?


On Tuesday 18 December 2001 19:55, you wrote:
> It is a USB drive.  If I give the mount command, it returns an error
> message indicating it cannot identify the file type.
>
> On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 15:18, Ed Tharp wrote:
> > On 8.1 the devfs makes thangs a little different. is the zip drive USB?
> > ide? scsi?
> >
> > On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:50, you wrote:
> > > Hello.  I am still having problems getting Mandrake 8.1 to access the
> > > zip drive.  After several weeks of checking I beleive that the system
> > > does not return the proper block info for mknod.  (I have done the
> > > usual checks of fstab).  Where can I find a list of major and minor
> > > numbers for mknod?  And, what do they mean?
> >
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