Internal Zip drive not recognized

[Le grand pinguin]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:06:56PM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> I have an internal 100MB zip drive connected as hdb.  On other Linux
> systems,
> I access it with an entry in fstab for /dev/hdb4.  This drive is not
> showing up in ubuntu Device Manager, so when I try to mount it I get an
> error "mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist".  My fstab entry
> is
> /dev/hdb4       /mnt/zip        auto    rw,user,noauto   0 0
> 
> Any suggestions for getting this to mount?

I had similar problems with my cdrom device. My solution was an
entry in /etc/udev/links.conf  looking like this:

 # Manually create a cdrom device
 M hdc b 22 0

you will need to add something similar to manually add partition
devices as well.

 HTH Ralf Mattes

> Thanks.
> 
> Gerry Tool
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