Iomega Zip 100

[Wouter Eerdekens]

Hello Craig,

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:58:46AM -0500, Craig Brown wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu 4.10 and it seemed to detect my hardware except 
> when I tried to mount my zip drive it says:
> *mount: special device /dev/hdc4 does not exist

udev is responsible for (not) creating the necessary devices. When udev
creates the devices, there indeed isn't a /dev/hdc4 if you didn't insert
a ZIP diskette during the boot process.

> 
> *My */dev* directory does not have a *hdc* device there, however when I
> run the command: *dmesg | grep hdc
> *It returns:
> *hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive

See above.

> 
> *I checked my fstab and there's not a listing for hdc there.
> 
> How can I make my zip drive work in Ubuntu?

Try booting with a ZIP diskette inserted. It ain't pretty, but it should
work.

Cheers,
Wouter

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