Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
> > Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4:
>
> I hate to interrupt a perfectly good thread, but can you give more
> details about whatever this "trick" is, and what the deal is with the
> 4th partition?
There is some crazy way they format/partition the disks so they work on
both macs and pc's, but it results in you needing to use the 4th partition
on pc's. That's about all I know, except that Iomega isn't the only one
to do this, Syquest does this too I think.
> I have an atapi zip drive, and if I hadn't read the messages very early
> in the bootup sequence with a zip disk in the drive, I never would've
> known to mount my zip disks on the 4th partition (/dev/hdd4). I read
> the zip HOWTO, but didn't find any mention of this. Mounting on the
> fourth partition works, but it seems wrong because fdisk doesn't show
> anything like that.
I've got a zip disk too, which is why I'm familiar with this problem. I
thought my partition table looked weird like that too. But I went ahead
and repartitioned/reformated the disks for e2fs.
HTH,
Brandon
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