My recollection may be fuzzy due to age :-), but I seem to remember someone posting some time ago (2-3 years) that the partitioning on zip drives was done that way so that they are compatible with MACs. Windows/Linux only use one partition and that is set as the fourth one. The MAC file systems uses the first three for allocation tables or some such. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Was I on mushroom trip???
The Friday 2004-06-04 at 15:27 -0700, David Brenner wrote:
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:27:47 -0700 From: David Brenner To: suse-linux-e@ Subject: [SLE] Zip Drives
Old post, didn't see it before. Anyway.
My recollection may be fuzzy due to age :-), but I seem to remember someone posting some time ago (2-3 years) that the partitioning on zip drives was done that way so that they are compatible with MACs. Windows/Linux only use one partition and that is set as the fourth one. The MAC file systems uses the first three for allocation tables or some such. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Was I on mushroom trip???
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/ZIP-Drive.gz: | Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO | Kyle Dansie, dansie@ibm.net | v2.5, 07 March 2002 ... | 8.5. Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ? | | This is one of the most popular questions, but I don't think anyone | has a definite answer to this one. Could be they had their head where | the sun don't shine. Maybe there is no reason. But I think that yes, Mac ZIPs use a diferent partitions than #4 - but I don't know which one (or several, as you say). I use #1 for ext2, #4 for vfat. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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