You should be able to mount the zip drives as /dev/sda4 (for some only-partially-understood reason). Run fdisk on a zip, and print the partition table. The
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Chris Reeves wrote: pre-formatted(FAT) disks all seem to have the single partition defined in table position 4. Go figure. If you re-partition and format them with ext2, you're free to define them in any position you like. Just remember to mount the partition you defined... I'm not sure it was in this thread, or on another list, but I saw it reported recently that the 'Zip Tools' disk has partition 1 formatted as FAT, so if you want to mount that one, you have to moount /dev/sda1 not /dev/sda4. -- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"