Well I'm sorry Sergio this worked for me.
you said
"All I get is: mount: can't find .dev/sda4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
but they're there.... mmmm"
"Mike are you sure you don't need to enter any thing on mtab or any other
file..."
As far as I know you don't need to change any other files.
I just looked at how I set up my linux box to use a zip drive, I mounted
lots of zip disks, everything worked.......
You are running 2.2.9-19mdk but I am running 2.2.5-ac3-5mdk.
I am not running M6.0, I upgraded M5.3 to KDE1.1.1 and the 2.2.5 kernel.
There might be a difference in the kernel versions causing this. ? ?
Okay check these things...
does your fstab file have this entry
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto,exe,rw
0 0
when you try to mount the zip disk all you entrys in fstab have to match
the parameters you mount with. ie you can't mount an ext2 disk when fstab
says vfat.
does your computer use irq 7 for the parallel port ?
I was assuming that it does.
You might have to change this line in
/etc/conf.modules
options parport_pc io=0x387,0x278 irq=7,auto (irq= what your computer uses)
Did you insmod parport then insmod ppa ?
you have to load parport first.
Are you sharing a printer on the parallel port as well?
Parallel printer support can't be compiled into the kernel it has to be
avaliable as a module. If you were using the printer then wanted to use the
zip drive you first remove the printer module with this command rmmod lp
(the printer module is lp). Then insmod parport then insmod ppa.
If you are going to use a printer and a zip drive then you would not want
the zip drive module to load when linux boots. In this case edit
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
leave /sbin/insmod parport and erase /sbin/insmod ppa
This way you have to load and unload the printer and zip drive modules by
hand.
All of these modules must be avaliable to the kernel.(parport,ppa,lp)
look in /lib/modules/2.2.x.../scsi ppa and imm should be there.
look in /lib/modules/2.2.x../misc parport and lp should be there.
Okay I really hope that this info will help!
