Internal Zip drive not recognized

[Petaris]

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?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gerry Tool
> 
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ive heard that you need to use the ide-floppy module (ie. 'modprobe
ide-floppy') to get zip drives (ide/ATAPI anyway) working.

Hope this helps


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Petaris