[NBLUG/talk] CD problem (SuSE)

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Mon Jul 7 15:56:01 PDT 2003


On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:41:50PM -0700, Cal Herrmann wrote:
} On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, ME wrote:
} 
} > Cal Herrmann said:
} > > I have put SuSE 8.2 in, as usual I have a little problem beyond me!
} > > I have a CD, a CDrecorder (zip brand), and a zip drive: the CDrecorder
} > > connection works, but the others seem to have a-or-more problem.
} > > fstab says:
} > > ...
} > > /dev/hdb4   /media/zip    auto    noauto,user
} > > /dev/cdrecorder  /media/cdrecorder   auto   ro,noauto,user,exec
} > > /dev/cdrom   /media/cdrom    /auto   ro,noauto,user,exec
} 
} hda: Maxtor 92048U8, ATA DISK drive
} hdb: ATAPI 50X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
} hdc: ZIPCD 4x650, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
} hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 750 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
} Partition check:
}  hda:<6> [PTBL] [2482/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3
}  hdd: hdd4

The zip drive should be:
/dev/hdd4 /media/zip    auto    noauto,user

I'd make a sym link in /dev:
zip -> hdd4

Then /etc/fstab would be:
/dev/zip /media/zip    auto    noauto,user

But either way should work.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com



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