> > Hello experts!
> > I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
> > Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
> > installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
> > system a few times and never been able to get my zip working under Linux
> > again. Could someone please point me in the right direction? I'm using
> > Mandrake 7.1, I did an expert install and went with reiserfs. I said
> > 'no' to the 'any scsi interfaces' during install - is this my problem?
> > I've even recompiled my kernel using the latest 2.4.xx from Mandrake,
> > but still have never just had my zip auto-detected like it was the first
> > time around.
> >
>
> Let's ask the most obvious question first.
> During boot is your USB controller being loaded and also is it listed in
> your device menu?
>
> Charles
Ok, my device menu does see the onboard usb controller and 'usbview' sees
that I have both a usb hub and the iomega zip drive attached (yes, I tried
moving the zip drive directly to the usb root port and it recognizes it both
ways).
When booting I see both the usb daemon and usb filesystem starting, and then
when 'drakfont' starts I get the message 'usb.c not recognized by any
drivers'
When I try to mount the zip I get this:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?)
Mike
