[sclug] udev vs Zip drive

[Matt]

* Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> [2004-12-08 12:40:17]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a Zip drive which sits - well, used to :-( - on 
> /dev/hdd4 backing up my development codebase. Then I 
> upgraded to SuSE 9.2, which has kernel 2.6 and udev. Now, 
> udev happily creates /dev/hdd and /dev/hdd[1-59], but 
> *doesn't* create /dev/hdd4! If I mknod it manually, it works 
> for a bit (although eject doesn't work, which is a PITA) but 
> then udev comes along a bit later and deletes it again.

Try the following:

mknod /dev/hdd4 b X Y
chown user:group /dev/hdd4
chmod XYZ /dev/hdd4

cp -p /dev/hdd4 /etc/udev/devices/

Still looks udev is screwing up, but maybe this works around it for now.

(This is mostly from a Fedora FAQ entry for getting the nVidia driver
/dev entries to persist across reboots)

> The other wierdness which might be related is that I've got 
> ide-floppy complaining in dmesg that there's no disk in the 
> drive, but it's not in lsmod, and if I modprobe ide-floppy, 
>  modprobe can't find the module!

My IDE zip drive does/did that all the time, a patch was introduced into
the kernel at some point to shut it up. AFAIK those messages are
harmless anyway, (if you really don't have a disk in the drive :-).

Matt
-- 
"Maximum volume yields maximum goats."
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