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On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 20:02, Mike Adolf wrote:
After installing 10.1 my zip was not recognized, no entry in fstab. Tried to create device using Create New/Device/Zip Device from the desktop (right click). An icon appeared but it won't mount (as root). Tried to create a device using makedev /dev/hdd4 (4 since I want vfat and windows uses partion 4?). I did not see when it happened but now I have two zip icons on the desktop. After reboot they are still there and now there is no hdd4 in dev. What the !*&^% is going on. How do I get rid of those icons and start over?
Have you tried running HardDrake? I think there's an option on a button to scan for zip drives. There is something of a problem still with removable drives and 2.6 kernels, though, as the name for removable drives keeps changing if you unplug and re-plug later. It clears itself in time, though. Still, that's probably your *next* problem, not the current one :-)
Anne
What type of ZIP drive is this? USB, IDE, SCSI? Parellel Port? From the /dev/hdd4, I would guess an IDE device, but I don't like to guess. In any case, under 10.1 with udev, a device made with makedev will not survive a reboot. You have to create a udev rune for it, if there isn't one. For most plug-in devices, hotplug and udev are susposed to work togethter to create the device, and mount it, on the fly. It sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. Growling pains...
I like udev, even with the bugs, because it will let you create rules for creating specific devices names for specific devices. I am still working out all the details, but I can make it work with supermount to handle my USB to IDE interface, and it should be fairly easy to make the same setup work with USB ZIP drive. If you can send me the output "lsusb" with the ZIP drive plugged in, and were you want it mounted, I can create rules for you. The only drawback is that with supermount controlling the device, the icon shows on the desktop even if the device is not plugged in, or if there isn't a disk in it. Like I said, I am still working on the details - I want the mount points and icons to be created and removed on the fly. But using a specific udev rule for the device gets around the changing SCSI device when hotplugging devices - the udev name you pick is always the same. (I don't know what happens when you have 2 of the same USB devices, and plug them in at the same time - I don't have the hardware to test this...)
Mikkel --
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