Re: Fw: [SLE] SuSE 9.2 not quite fully cooked?

From: Doug B (suse_at_hatterhill.com)
Date: 12/27/04

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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:18:52 -0600

    On Monday 20 December 2004 06:11 pm, Doug B wrote:
    > On Monday 20 December 2004 05:19 pm, David Johanson wrote:
    > > This has definitely not been my experience as chronicled on this
    > > list. What has been surprising to me is the almost total lack of
    > > response to the problems I've been detailing such as phantom drives
    > > being listed, drives not being found, and apparently total
    > > inability to deal with ATAPI zip drives. At this point I'm looking
    > > into other distributions. Up through 9.0 I felt like SuSE was THE
    > > distribution to own, but I'm beginning to change my opinions more
    > > and more with each subsequent release since 9.0
    >
    > I do have to agree on the zip drive thing. I still haven't looked
    > into that. I rarely use the drive any more.

    I finally got around to looking into this.

    With the old way of do this , the fstab entry looked like:
    /dev/hdb4 /media/zip vfat user,defaults 0 0

    Well, there is no /dev/hdb4 on this machine. every /dev/hdx had a
    fourth partition expect the one my zip was hung on.

    I tried create the device, but no luck. Finally I tried /dev/hdb (no
    partition number) in fstab:
    /dev/hdb /media/zip vfat user,defaults 0 0

    I can now read the disk just fine. It has not been repartitioned or
    formated. They are the same files on the same partition as when the
    drive was in a 9.1 box using /dev/hdb4 (actually hdd4 on that other
    box.)

    I still think a lot of the flack distros are taking can be traced back
    to kernel development. Without a 2.7 testing/development branch,
    things move into the 2.6 kernel too quickly.

    Have fun!
    Doug 

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