[lug] mounting zip drive fails: special device /dev/hdc4 does not exist

[Bear Giles]

Does your kernel include support for "ide-floppy"?  It's probably
not in a standard kernel but it may be a module.  (I don't know -
I always build it into my kernel.)

bof wrote:
> I'm running Krud FC3 and, in upgrading from kernel 1378 to 1381, have
> lost the ability to mount my zip drive (/dev/hdc4) using the command
> "mount /media/zip". When I try this, either as a user or as root, I get
> an error message mount: "special device /dev/hdc4 does not exist". In
> /dev, hdc4 is there, as it always has been.mount:
> 
> I can still mount the drive if I am root and issue "mount -t vfat
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt" but then I cannot write anything to it as a user.
> 
> It seems to me that this happened before when Fedora updated their
> kernal and did not update something in the SE Linux features, but I
> cannot find my notes and searching Google and the Fedora forums does not
> come up with anything.
> 
> Solutions, anyone?
> 
> BOF
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