zip drive errors

[Michael Osika]

Hello All,

I've been following the postings for sometime now and have managed to get Mandrake 8.1 loaded and running thanks to the disks handed out at the May meeting. I have the system connected to Adelphia's PowerLink and have the cd-rom and floppy drive mounted and working.( not too bad for a complete newbie ).
   However when I try to get the Zip Drive mounted I get an error saying that " special device hdd4 does not exist ". When I type in "dmesg" I can see a line saying --------- hdd  Iomega zip atapi etc.---- and another line entry in the /etc/fstab directory identifying the hdd4 device, but no such listing exists in the  /dev directory.I have tried to create a new floppy device as "root"  but I get another message saying I don't have permission to do this which surprised me considering I was logged in as root.
   
Any help with this is always appreciated. I have other questions but I'm taking a one thing at a time approach.

Mike Osika
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