Arthur S. Alexion on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:30:09 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting


On Monday 10 June 2002 04:06 pm, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:12:36PM -0500, Sean Finney wrote:
> > yeah -- the reason for my confusion was that there was one
> > 'ide-floppy ...' driver message for each 'hdb: driver not present'
> > message, of which there were three or four in the dmesg, with
> > nothing else in between.
>
> The floppy driver successfully dealt with the Zip drive (hdc, I
> *think*, but I didn't retain the dmesg output locallly). Looks
> like the kernel was trying to have it deal with the CD-ROM (hdb)
> too, but it couldn't (for obvious reasons).
>
> Does Linux really do Zip support via its floppy driver?

This is an internal IDE zip drive.  To mount my serial port zip, I have 
to use /dev/sda4. (At least that's how it works on my other machine.)

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