what kind of zip drive? internal IDE? external SCSI or external parallel port? Setting up Iomega ZIP parallel port drive: 1. Zip drive uses /dev/sda4 so: ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zip 2. Add following to /etc/fstab: /dev/zip /mnt/zip vfat noauto 0 0 3. Uses ppa.o kernel module (parallel port adapter) insmod /lib/modules/<kernel-ver>/scsi/pppa.o 4. mkdir /mnt/zip 5. mount /mnt/zip; use the drive; when done umount /mnt/zip If it's scsi, your scsi controller should see the device on boot up, assuming the device is connected and powered up when you boot your pc. check 'dmesg|more' Not sure about how the IDE internal one show up. I thought as a special kind of floppy but I could be wrong. Marc Olivier wrote: > Hello. > I'm running SuSE Linux 8.1 and can't get my Zip drive recognized and mounted. > I've gone into YAST 2, but I get nowhere. Anyone else have this problem and > how do I fix it? I am now at the stage I am creating files I'd like to save > elsewhere in case I crash my hard drive. (I have windows on another > partition). > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list