Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and Iomege Zip drive

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

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:~# 

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