OK, recently I have had problems configuing my zip drive. Not so much anymore..nope, I can get it to mount by issuing the command of...
Neat stuff, but I have to do this everytime I turn on/off my computer and then I have aesthetically unappealing and in the long term potentially worrisome problems with this.
Problem One:
/mnt/zipX folders.
Everytime I invoke the command "modprobe ppa," it creates a new zip folder in /mnt/. It does not do this cleanly..as to say, if I were to restart my computer now and leave everything as is it is when I restart and invoke modprobe I will have a /mnt/zip2 problem. I countered this problem by becoming fed up and deleting the /mnt/zipX folders in my folder, then restarted, and mounted it again. All fine and dandy--there is now just one /zip under mnt. Until next time I have to restart.
So here's what I think I need to do to counter this situation:
Get modprobe to start at kernel boot, and have it probe the parallel interface. How does one do this?
Problem Two:
Funny "Zip Drive 3" folder.
I'm using Gnome 2.6. Since I am rarely in KDE or any other winodw manager, I cannot say if this new innovation is common to all of them. However, there is a (what I'm assuming) folder on the desktop with a cute icon and it says "Computer." Once I click on this icon, up comes the relevant mount points on my system:
Zip Drive, CD-ROM, removable, windows, Filesystem, Network
What I also have now, because of the mishap with the zip drive is an icon that reads "Zip Drive 3"
While this is not going to change, so long as I get modprobe to run at kernel boot, the fact I have one extra icon for "Zip Drive" is an aesthetic annoyance. I tried to remove it running root while I was in Gnome (slaps wrist) but it would say the same thing it says as when I'm trying to do such things as a regular user:
"Error "Operation not permitted" while deleting "computer://...5203.drive"."
Now I simply just dragged it to my trash, it told me it would have to just be deleted out right, and it tried to do so. But it says I can't do it, even under root. Why is this? What do I edit/change/manipulate to allow me to get this derned thing to go away?!
Thanks in adavanced to any and all replies
~Allexus
