On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:30:40PM +0100, Marc Dobler wrote: > > hello ! > > this is just a newbye question concerning a Iomega Zip 250. > i know this topic was submitted a few weeks ago, > but i still have some trouble, even using the previous mails. > > the hardware is fully recognized by Fedora > (using the information center of KDE), > but still remaining a question : > /dev/sda1, /dev/hdb1 ... does not work ... > only /dev/sda4 ! > > so, why sda4 ??? - why not sda1 or 2 ... ? - > > does anybody have an explanation ? > Zip drives come preformated like that. Blame Iomega. :) > if i put my external HD that uses /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda10 (several > partitions), what is happening ? > where whould be my zip ? - on /dev/sdb4 - > which one has priority ? The one connected first. If both are connected upon powerup, the driver first to be loaded and to report a device gets the sda. The following gets sdb, the next sdc, etc.. Udev promises to identify devices in a persistent and useful manner, but I don't know its current state nor its integration in Fedora. Regards, Luciano Rocha
