On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:47, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > System is Debian testing (kernel 2.6.5) installed from Knoppix-3.4 > The PC has a 100Mb ZIP drive in it. > > It is detected at boot time (dmesg -> hdd). > > Lilo.conf has option hdd=scsi in it.. > > Attempt to mount the disks in it as > > # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/test > results in: > mount: /dev/sda4 is not valid block device > similar messge when /dev/hdd4 is mounted.
You didn't say what type of connection the drive is using, but judging by the fact that you said that the drive is 'in' the computer (and that it's being detected as hdd), I'm guessing that it's an internal IDE drive. If that's the case, why do you want to access it as a SCSI device? Have you tried taking out the hdd=scsi line in lilo.conf and accessing it directly as hdd? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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