Re: [SLE] Zip drive issues
Alexandr Malusek wrote:
"Mark A. Taff"
writes: So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
Zip disks for PCs are pre-formatted like this but I don't know why Iomega selected this setup. Anyway, you can change the partitioning by e.g. fdisk.
-- A.M.
Unless you want multiple partitions on a 100 mB Zip disk, why bother? Stock disks come initialized this way (at least the preformatted disks that I've been using), so the chances are good that anyone you exchange data with will expect the same partitioning scheme. Actually I heard once that was done intentionally, so iOmega could ship Windows and Mac software on the same disk, and neither OS would see the other's partition. Anyone have the straight scoop? Cheers, Gordon Keehn
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:55, Gordon Keehn wrote:
Alexandr Malusek wrote:
"Mark A. Taff"
writes: So, can anyone tell me _why_ my zip thinks it is hda4 rather than hda?
Zip disks for PCs are pre-formatted like this but I don't know why Iomega selected this setup. Anyway, you can change the partitioning by e.g. fdisk.
-- A.M.
Unless you want multiple partitions on a 100 mB Zip disk, why bother? Stock disks come initialized this way (at least the preformatted disks that I've been using), so the chances are good that anyone you exchange data with will expect the same partitioning scheme.
Actually I heard once that was done intentionally, so iOmega could ship Windows and Mac software on the same disk, and neither OS would see the other's partition. Anyone have the straight scoop?
yes why not reformat the zip disk? unless you need other OS to read the disk it wont matter. The easiest might be mkdosfs to reformat the zip. CWSIV
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Carl William Spitzer IV
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Gordon Keehn