problems mounting my ZIP drives

[chadm1967]

Hi all,

I just reinstalled my the OS on my Mandrake 8.1 box and now I'm unable to mount my internal ZIP100 and external ZIP250 USB drives. Not sure what happened. Before the reinstall, they both worked fine. Here's my /etc/fstab settings:

/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I didn't add any settings to this file. These are default after install.

Here's the error that I receive:

mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist


Thanks for any help you can give. I'm stumped.....everything looks okay to me.

[chadm1967]

My external USB ZIP drive seems to be working now. The internal is still having some problems.

Thanks!

[pbharris]

hello,
what does ls -l /dev/ | grep hdb give ?

[chadm1967]

It doen't give anything.......

???

[pbharris]

Nothing?? how about ls -l /dev/ | grep hda ?

[chadm1967]

Following is what I received. I must have been typing it in wrong......


[root@mandrake chad]# ls -l /dev/|grep hda
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Jan 12 14:02 hda -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 12 14:02 hda1 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 12 14:02 hda2 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 12 14:02 hda5 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 12 14:02 hda6 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
[root@mandrake chad]# ls -l /dev/|grep hdb
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Jan 12 14:02 hdb -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 12 14:02 hdb4 -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part4
[root@mandrake chad]#

Thanks again for the help!

[pbharris]

what does mandrake do with its dev directory? is it using devFS? - anyway we can see that /dev/hdb4 is there. do you have ide-floppy loaded as a module? if not load it and see what that does for us...

[otheos]

Yes, mandrake uses devFS

[pbharris]

thanks otheos