hi guys,
i have some trouble with my zip drive. 1st running mandy 10.0. on kde 3.2.
when i put a disk in the drive i get two zip icons on my desktop. then if i click on either one it will lock up the desktop.

my fstab files look's like this...........

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/hdb4 supermount dev=/dev/hdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/windows supermount dev=/dev/hda1,fs=ntfs,ro,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,nls=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

also under my mnt file it looks like this..........

neil@localhost /]$ cd mnt
[neil@localhost mnt]$ ls
cdrom/ floppy/ hd/ hdb4/ windows/ zip/ zip2/
[neil@localhost mnt]$

why is it showing two zips, and the hdb4

what do i need to do to fix this and have my zip drive up and running?

Neemoe

I also had some problems getting my Zip drive working (under SuSE). I can't really answer why several devices are showing up, but it's not unusual. I remember reading something about Zips having several partitions as standard, with the files in partition 4 (or something...).

In my /media directory (where my drives are mounted), my Zip is mounted in three directories:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 28 19:06 zip
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 18 23:23 usb-storage-0032483D91083518:0:0:0p4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 28 19:32 usb-storage-0032483D91083518:0:

The files on the disk are mounted in the middle one (ending 0p4). Anyway, as the ls -l listing shows, this is the one with full access permissions.

Also, how have your Zip disks been formatted? I found that my Linux machine couldn't access disks that had been formatted as hfs or ufs on my Mac. Reformatting them with an MSDOS file system solved the problem.

Hope this helps.

Rob

thanks Robhogg,
i'll give the formatting a try. keep you posted on it.
neemoe