Re: LS120/Zip install update
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:07:44PM -0700, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
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> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Michelle Konzack wrote:
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> > >Plus, I've seen a few systems where the zip shows up as /dev/hdc instead
> > >of /dev/hdc4. Same internal ATAPI zip drive, same kernel version (2.2.14
> > >from the install) and same zip disk. I mean, I don't know why it does
> > >that.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > if you get the ZIP-Disk on /dev/hdc4 and it is FAT formatted it is normal.
> >
> > But If you get a /dev/hdc then it is generaly no FAT on it but ext2...
> > you can do this while using (c)fdisk and mkfs.ext2....
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> Again,
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> Same zip disk (off the shelf, FAT on partition 4), both drives NEC OEM zip
> drives (same manufacturing batch), both machines running Potato with stock
> 2.2.14 kernel. Machine at home shows zip disk on /dev/hdc4, machine at
> work shows zip disk on /dev/hdb.
>
> Home machine: i430TX chipset, Award BIOS support for zip.
> Work machine: ALi Alladin 5 chipset, BIOS does not recognise zip at all.
>
> There's also a jumper on the zip marked "A" in addition to "master" and
> "Csel" jumpers, but as far as the documentation is concerned it determines
> if Windows can address the zip drive as [B:] or not. Maybe that setting is
i guess accessing it as b: would be treating it like a super floppy (no
partitioning, filesystem directly on the floppy).
Friendly,
Svne LUTHER
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