Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and Iomege Zip drive

[Christophe Broult <christophe.broult@info.unicaen.fr>]

Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:

> On Jun 17, Christophe Broult wrote:
> > 
> > To sum up, as the additional commands below show, despite the alias
> > the ppa module is not automatically when I issue the mount command.
> > 
> > Christophe Broult <christophe.broult@info.unicaen.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > I am just wondering why the following does not work:
> > > 
> > > chicago:~# cat /etc/modutils/zip
> > > alias block-major-8-16 ppa
> > > chicago:~# 
> > 
> > chicago:~# mount /mnt/zip-ext2/
> > mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
> > chicago:~# modprobe ppa
> > chicago:~# mount /mnt/zip-ext2/
> > chicago:~# 
> 
> Did you run update-modules?

Yes I did.

Chris

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