Messages in this thread | | | From | jasonq@us ... | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:53:22 -0400 | Subject | Re: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1 |
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Zip disks come partitioned as the fourth partition to allow MacOS to access them. Your tools disc, if it has the MacOS software on it, should have two partitions. Changing a disc from partition 4 to partition 1 will break compatibility with MacOS, but not with Windows NT or Windows 95.
I had my Zip drive set up as /dev/zip -> /dev/sdd4 and, in the course of dealing with the infamous click, I fdisked one disk with Windows 95's fdisk, making it /dev/sdd1. I tried using Linux's fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk to fix it. Even Iomega's format (long and short) didn't fix it. The way I finally return the disk to partition 4 was to boot into Windows 95, used the latest IomegaWare (downloadable from Iomega's web site) to create a boot (or system) disk on it.
Jason Quartarone
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