Carl Zeilon <cznews at att.net> wrote: > > OK, this all seems correct. in /proc/ide/ide0/hdb I find several files. > "model" shows iomega zip 100 atapi. "driver" shows ide-floppy version > .97. "media" shows floppy. Trying to access the zip still shows an > error "mount: special device hdb4 does not exist" Remember, if I have a > disk in the drive at start up, it operates properly. There must be some > program running at start up that fudges this up. Hmm. Maybe it's something simple. Are you missing the file /dev/hdb4? Are you running devfs on that machine? (I have no idea what the correct device name would be then.. I haven't played with devfs at all). I guess it wasn't clear to me earlier that it would work if there was a disk in the drive on boot. Does that mean that the Zip disk gets mounted somewhere? Maybe you could boot up the system with a disk in the drive, then just figure out the correct device name from the output of running `mount' -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Previous instances in which / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ I professed to like you \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) were fraudulent! [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011109/d66ca563/attachment.pgp