Zip drive and udev

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Fri Oct 15 00:51:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:22 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> oops, this should be..
> # /sbin/sfdisk -R /dev/hdb
> 
	Thanks for this Harald, though I think we need to improve this somewhat
(and I'm sure it is being worked on).  I'm not sure how important it
should be as Zip's aren't nearly as popular as they once were.  Guess
I'll nose around in bugzilla and see what's going on.

Scott




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