Somebody in the thread at some point said: > One other point that I didn't mention before: The only way to get the > /dev/sde4 created is to boot the system WITH a disk inside the ZIP drive. ... > Disk /dev/sde: 0 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track 0 cylinders.... > Jul 28 15:02:23 estreet kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Jul 28 15:02:23 estreet kernel: sde: rw=0, want=196392, limit=1 limit = 1... it's clearly not able to interrogate the drive to find out the geometry properly... I guess I would first stick it in Bugzilla at Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi -Andy