Hi all,

I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm having a problem with my internal ZIP 100 drive. Following are the settings in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda5 / jfs defaults 1 1
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/hdd /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
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0



Following is the error I receive when I try to access the drive:

[chad@mandrake1 chad]$ su
Password:
[root@mandrake1 chad]# mount /mnt/zip
mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
[root@mandrake1 chad]#

Thanks for any help you can give.

and you have hdb4 listed in your /dev directory ??

Thanks for the reply.

I created a new directory in /dev called hdb4. Now, when I try to access the ZIP drive, I receive the following:

[chad@mandrake1 chad]$ su
Password:
[root@mandrake1 chad]# mount /mnt/zip
mount: /dev/hdb4 is not a block device
[root@mandrake1 chad]#

Thanks again for the help.