Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
>>>>> "F" == F Zimmermann <fzimmerm@pugh.bip.bham.ac.uk> writes:
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote:
>> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active
>> partition.
Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's
No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a
Mac-compatible partition table and (of course) a Macintosh file
system.
The 2.4 kernel has support for several partitioning schemes, including
Macintosh. So it should be possible to mount such a disk.
F> I thought it's got something to do with MS DOS/Win. There was a
F> discussion about ZIP drives on this list a couple of weeks ago were
F> someone metioned this.
I've glanced through that discussion. IIRC, it tricks DOS/Windows so
it assigns a drive letter first to all fixed partitions, and then to
the ZIP drive. That way, the letters stay the same if you boot without
a disk in the drive.
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