Since I installed udev and hotplug a while back, the zip drive on my
laptop has not worked. Eventually I made the connection: udev was not
creating /dev/hdb4. Googling produced little beyond the unhelpful
response closing Bug #260349. I quote:
> I have a zip drive that shows up as /dev/hdb. Zip drives are usually
> partitioned to have only /dev/hdb4 as a fat partition. udev doesn't
> create this device, so I can't mount my zip drive.
It does, please RTFM.
The problem is that the FM is nigh-unintelligible. So after spending
quite a few hours pouring over it, I hacked my way to a solution:
after udev does its magic with /dev, the old devices exist in /.dev.
So I added that old-fashioned "." to the relevant line in /etc/fstab,
thus:
/.dev/hdb4 /zip auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
In consequence, "mount /zip" works as it used to, and /var/log/syslog
reports as follows:
Oct 28 20:47:01 localhost udev[5748]: removing device node '/dev/hdb4'
Oct 28 20:47:01 localhost udev[5757]: creating device node '/dev/hdb4'
Oct 28 20:47:01 localhost kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p4
My question is, what's a better ("the Debian") way?
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