I installed the slackware-current kernel-2.6.9 kernel. every thing
works great! I do have a problem of not being to mount my external
zip drive (pluged into usb port). I read somthing like this in this NS
quite some time ago, but can not find any message's in this topic.

I have in fstab:

/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,owner 0 0

That did work under kernel-2.4.27....
When I try to mount a zip disk I am told:
"Mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist"

Thanks All for your help...
Wayne.
Lampiasi#Bellsouth.Net

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:08:26 +0000, lampiasi wrote:


> I have in fstab:
>
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,owner 0 0
>
> That did work under kernel-2.4.27.... When I try to mount a zip disk I
> am told: "Mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist"
>
>
It probably means that /dev/sda4 does not exist. Try ls /dev/sda4; see
what u get.

If it's not there you can create it with mknod, or try to figure out what
the real problem is. There seems to be a problem with the 2.6 kernel and
hotplug/udev and/or the udev.rules file that ships with Slack 10.

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> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,owner 0 0
> "Mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist"

The usb mounting concept is very much different in 2.6 then in 2.4.
Odds are your zip is on /dev/sda1 and not sda4. A simple little
script can find out.

for f in /dev/sd* ; do
mount $f /mnt/zip 2>/dev/null &&\
echo "we mounted on $f" &&\
umount $f
done

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lampiasi wrote:

> That did work under kernel-2.4.27....
> When I try to mount a zip disk I am told:
> "Mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist"

See my post to that subject about a week ago. I guess that's one of the
reasons why Slack 10.0 still runs 2.4.26 and only optionally includes
2.6.7.

Tried to upgrade to 2.6.x about a month ago, fiddled around a lot, and
finally went back to 2.4... though I really dug udev! But I think it's
better to wait until something more... usable will come out. Zip drive not
working, no burning with 2.6.8, that's too much trouble.

Cheers,

NK

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Tried to upgrade to 2.6.x about a month ago, fiddled around a lot, and
> finally went back to 2.4... though I really dug udev! But I think it's
> better to wait until something more... usable will come out. Zip drive not
> working, no burning with 2.6.8, that's too much trouble.

About the same here. 2.6.9 was really screwed, burning only worked as
root and my parallel printer was spitting out garbage. Ony went back to
2.6.7, though, and got that one working smoothly now.

~Mik

PS: Imagine: We compile and install a kernel without great necessity,
just to try, and we spend several weeks to get it working the way it
worked before. Only now, `uname -r` will give us something different.
Damn, we _are_ geeks!

--
ls -l /mnt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2004-11-11 17:57 doom -> /dev/null

lampiasi wrote:
> I installed the slackware-current kernel-2.6.9 kernel. every thing
> works great! I do have a problem of not being to mount my external
> zip drive (pluged into usb port). I read somthing like this in this NS
> quite some time ago, but can not find any message's in this topic.
>
> I have in fstab:
>
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,owner 0 0
>
> That did work under kernel-2.4.27....
> When I try to mount a zip disk I am told:
> "Mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist"
>
> Thanks All for your help...
> Wayne.
> Lampiasi#Bellsouth.Net

Is the ub module loaded ?
If yes, take a look at:
https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/pip...st/000709.html
After you create these devices, try to mount your zip on /dev/uba1 or
/dev/uba2.... ( look in /var/log/messages what /dev/ub?? is actived when
you plug your zip).

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re-entrer.
Anonyme

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:37:44 +0100, Mario Berger wrote:
> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Tried to upgrade to 2.6.x about a month ago, fiddled around a lot, and
>> finally went back to 2.4... though I really dug udev! But I think it's
>> better to wait until something more... usable will come out. Zip drive not
>> working, no burning with 2.6.8, that's too much trouble.
>
> About the same here. 2.6.9 was really screwed, burning only worked as
> root and my parallel printer was spitting out garbage. Ony went back to
> 2.6.7, though, and got that one working smoothly now.
>
> ~Mik
>
> PS: Imagine: We compile and install a kernel without great necessity,
> just to try, and we spend several weeks to get it working the way it
> worked before. Only now, `uname -r` will give us something different.
> Damn, we _are_ geeks!
>

I have similar problems with 2.6.7
After some researh I wrote a couple of udev rules and everything works ok.

John
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