Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[pelibali <pelibali@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:48:15 +0100
"Carlos E. R." <.> wrote:

...
> > 
> > It depends on how the zip disk was formatted. By default most are
> > formatted as hard disk and use the 4th partition (hdX4). But you
> > can also format them as super floppy (hdX) or use the first
> > partition(hdX1).
> 
> Except if you use zips discs for interchanging files with other  
> systems.
> 

I use frequently 100Mb ZIP disks formatted with vfat, and having data
exclusively on their first partition. At least with 9.1 they work
well, and I can exchange data with M$Y2K-XP systems without any
problem.

OK, I agree: on 9.1 the setup of my parallel Iomega drive was close to
a real nichtmare... Now I have subfs disabled, and it's just fine with
the

/dev/sda1    /media/zippo    vfat    noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0

fstab entry.

Best regards,
Pelibali