Zip drive and udev

[Harald Hoyer]

Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Scott Talbot wrote:
> 
>>
>>     I have a Zip drive that I don't use often, but when I saw that there
>> was no provision in the computer:// for the drive after the updates of
>> 13 Oct, I figured I'd dust off the disk and see what happens.
>>
>> The drive still mounts.  udev made a /dev/hdb for the device, but not
>> a /dev/hdb4.  I tried to mount the disk, got the blockdisk error
>> attempted to mount it as hdb got an error of bad fstype.  After that I
>> was able to mount as /dev/hdb4.
>> Is this what everyone is seeing?
>>
>> Scott
>>
> 
> you may do an
> # /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> which will do a partition reload of drive. After that hdb4 should be 
> available and created.
> 

oops, this should be..
# /sbin/sfdisk -R /dev/hdb