Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
On 21 Aug 2001, Guy Geens wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
Indeed they do, luckily its the old hfs file system. hfs+ is not yet
supported by the linux kernel. I found a hfs+ prject on sourcefoerge and
it is in the pre alpha state.
>
> The 2.4 kernel has support for several partitioning schemes, including
> Macintosh. So it should be possible to mount such a disk.
>
Even kernel 2.2 does.
Frank
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