[ale] Permission hell question

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Wednesday 30 June 2004 03:50 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> |  Maybe Sean can post the specifics of the actual zip 
> | interface?
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> I am following this discussion with some (slightly bemused)
> interest.
> But I am not certain exactly what specifics you might want
> here. My zip drive is an IDE device.  I have a hard drive
> and the CD/DVD burner on the primary IDE connector and the
> second hard drive and the zip drive on the secondary IDE
> connector.  The two hard drives are linked in a RAID.

Different device, so it would be interesting for you to attempt a 
different /etc/fstab entry.  Try the following:

/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0

mount the drive from the command line:

mount /mnt/zip

Then check out the perms.  See if you can create a file on /mnt/zip.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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