[ILUG] Remaking block special files

[Fred Cummins]

As a casualty of an update (RH6.1->RH7.0), my peripherals no longer
work. 

For the floppy, fstab reads:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner   
0 0

A mount attempt yields

mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number

>ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw----    1 fred     floppy     2,   0 Aug 24  2000 /dev/fd0

yet mtools can read it perfectly with 
>mdir a:

FOr the zip, which is an IOmega 250M IDE drive on hdc (hard disk is
scsi), with a disk which I previously formatted with an ext2 fs and
which used to mount fine (and does in another machine), I get

# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip
mount: /dev/hdc1 is not a valid block device

# ls -l /dev/hdc1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   1 Aug 24  2000 /dev/hdc1

Eek...  I'm completely stumped.  Do I have to remake all my block
special files with mknod (if so, can someone point me to up to date
documentation?)?  Is there any rhyme or reason to all this?  

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Fred
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