FAO Ubuntu team : ZIP drive nightmare ! :o(

[Stephen Durham]

Hello,
	I have a zip drive on a Redhat enterprise linux system and in order for
it to work a disk has to be present during the boot sequence. I don't
really recall how I set it up, but I know I have hdd=ide-scsi in the
grub boot line. I don't use the zip and often forget when it is
rebooted, very rarely.

> 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(
> 
> 
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