Internal Zip drive not recognized

[Vincent Trouilliez]

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

Yep, this is it. I have one of these drives too, it did indeed need the
ide-floppy module in order to create the appropriate device.

Vince