[techtalk] parallel zip drive

Deb Bassett deb at urbanwide.com
Wed Oct 6 21:14:20 EST 1999


Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 22:56:45 +0000, Deb Bassett <deb at urbanwide.com> said:
> 
> >I followed the howtos but still haven't sorted it. The problem seems to
> >be that kernel does not recognise sda4 as a block device. Any ideas???
> >maybe I missed something.... :)
> 
> A few questions:
> * Does /dev/sda4 exist?
> * What are the major and minor device numbers for /dev/sda4? (use ls -l)
>   Is it a block device (the ls line should start with a 'b', not a 'c')
> * Does your kernel support that major device? (look in /proc/devices)

Apparently it is a block device... however looking in /proc/devices, the
kernel doesn't support the device though - so how do I change it so it
does?? I'm still have newbie status me thinks...!!
 
Ta very much!

Deb.

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