Ben: with two recently, completely fresh installed systems on my machine (exchangeable HDs) where the Zip is an internal SCSI drive, I found the filesystem type "vfat" for it automatically inscribed into the pertinent line in fstab.
This then would _not_ read the "msdos" (FAT16) formatted Zip diskettes. it just wouldn't list any file there, zero. I had to edit this fstab line, putting _myself_ "msdos" as filetype in there, and reboot. Same story with a CF (compact flash card) _adapter_ (not a PCMCIA connector) which is connected as the second HD to the motherboard. Again, it was not _me_ who had put in "vfat" in its "fstab" line; I had to edit this too in order to have it read CF cards correctly. Thus I think I have reason to say that one should watch out for it to have _these_ (Zipdrive and CF adapter) mounted precisely as "msdos", not at "vfat". And IIRR we had that same problem with a "backpack"/parport connected Zipdrive at a workshop and with Slackware.- Maybe it reads all sorts of floppies Ok. but wth the Zip drives and diskettes it seems to be specific. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-01-20 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
