-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh hey I remember this. There's a problem (sort of) with devfs where the ide probe doesn't see the ide-floppy until it's explicitly poked. I used keep a device node around just so I could read a sector off into /dev/null. That would cause devfs to notice that there *is* something there and that it should make a node for it. Supermount though... I never touched the stuff though it's probably depending on devfs to get it right first. Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote: > Thanks for the tip. I'll do some reading and try again. I'm glad someone > confirmed what I thought about the supermount feature (busted). > I knew something had changed in 8.1. Accessing my removable media devices > is much easier except for the #@*%$ zip. This must be the devfs > feature. Sorry Florin, your strace tip is a little over my head :-\ I'll > get back to this later. Thanks everybody. > > > At 02:33 AM 11/13/2001, you wrote: > >On Saturday 10 November 2001 10:40 pm, you wrote: > > > I'll try to answer all your questions as best I can. > > > >I had a USB Zip 250 and Mandrake 8.1 and it responded with pretty much > >exactly the same errors. Although I have since removed it from my system, > >you can find a fair amount of info and discussion concerning this problem on > >the Mandrake User board under "Hardware". Since implementing devfs many > >people experience problems with USB devices. I previously ran Mandrake 8.0 > >with "supermount" and had no problems with my USB devices. There is a devfs > >writeup on the Mandrake Forum page. This info should be pertinent regardless > >of the distro you using. > > > >Devfs provides another method of supplying the character and block special > >devices that form the /dev directory. This is a kernel space device manager. > > There is also a user space portion called devfsd for user overrides. Most > >distro's are not utilizing devfs as default. Mandrake 8.1 is the first, I > >think. Also, supermount is currently broken in 8.1, and by default in > >disabled (but should be fixed soon). > > > >Beyond that, I don't know much more... > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78XQqfexLsowstzcRAhtNAKCekDOipayCdUeVSq8Ib3bFlpiYtQCfYlEg nwmZr3is9LdjeccvHuZ+SQw= =/eSp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----