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Old 01-09-2005, 03:40 PM   #1
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Zip drive & cdrom


Hello everybody,

I've just upgraded from 9.1 to 10.1 and I've encountered a couple of problems, viz:

I can't access my Zip drive (100Meg parallel) although it appears in /etc/fstab. It worked in 9.1. There is an icon on the desktop but it comes up as an empty file although I can list the contents as root in a terminal window by cding to /mnt/zip and doing ls -l.
Secondly, for some reason I now have 3 cdroms listed in /mnt. I actually have a dvd rom as hdc and a dvd burner as hdd.

Any suggestions as to how to overcome the above, particularly the zip drive problem?

Thanks for any help

tenbells
 
Old 01-09-2005, 03:55 PM   #2
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Further to the above, for some reason I can no longer do a directory listing in a terminal window.
Weird!!

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Old 01-24-2005, 08:31 PM   #3
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open file manager "super user" go to your /mnt directory and click on the zip folder , if you have a disk in , can you see your files on that disk?
 
Old 01-25-2005, 04:53 PM   #4
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No, it worked once and next time it didn't. I've gone back to 9.1 while I do some research.

Thanks for your reply

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