FAO Ubuntu team : ZIP drive nightmare ! :o(

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Dear Ubuntu Team.

I just posted  yesterday saying that I got my old 100MB ZIP drive
working on Warty, I rebooted, and it was still working (loaded the
modules in /etc/modules, in the correct order, sg first then ppa).
Sorted I thought.

But today, it's broken again. It says it can't mount it because 'sda' is
an unknow device....but obviously it IS there, /dev/sda and /dev/sg0 are
there...and obviously /etc/fstab hasn't changed overnight !! :-/

I was thinking of writing an HowTo about this, but I now feel like the
other way around... I would like Ubuntu to write such an HowTo, because
I really don't understand what's wrong with what I did ! It worked
perfectly last night, then today upon rebooting.... broken again !

I truly hope that ZIP drives (of all flavours, internal, external,
parallel, IDE, SCSI, USB, 100MB, 250MB...) will be taken care of with
hoary and that everything will be automagic and smooth. 
My old Mandrake 9.2 did it, so sure enough, my lovely Ubuntu can do it
too.

Regards,


Vince, trying to keep the faith, but having a tough time some
times... :o(