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Re: Iomega Zip



In article <[🔎] 19980919215837.4817.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>:

>Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip
>drive, as you can with a floppy.  You MUST buy preformatted zips,
>which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors.

No.

I've bought Mac-format (HFS) floppies and reformatted them for use on
DOS/Windows machines.  Granted, I did that under OS/2.  (Yes, I do use
lots of operating systems, why do you ask?)

So one *can* reformat a Zip disk.  I suspect fdformat would work, but
I've never had to do it under Linux so that's a complete guess.
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Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net
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