Zip drive and udev

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 09:04:14 UTC 2004


Scott Talbot wrote:
> 
> 	I have a Zip drive that I don't use often, but when I saw that there
> was no provision in the computer:// for the drive after the updates of
> 13 Oct, I figured I'd dust off the disk and see what happens.
> 
> The drive still mounts.  udev made a /dev/hdb for the device, but not
> a /dev/hdb4.  I tried to mount the disk, got the blockdisk error
> attempted to mount it as hdb got an error of bad fstype.  After that I
> was able to mount as /dev/hdb4.
> Is this what everyone is seeing?
> 
> Scott
> 

you may do an
# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
which will do a partition reload of drive. After that hdb4 should be available and created.




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