Kenneth wrote, > Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition > number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no > partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for > Bernoulli's too BTW).
I'm probably not being clear enough here. What you and peter wrote is exactly correct, but that's the part I knew :) I need to know *exactly* where the partition lies. Is it the whole disk? It seems to me that there's a tiny bit left for some reason, that isn't used in the partition. And since I only get one shot at this, if I lay the partition wrong . . . Hmm, can I use dd to make a copy of the disk even though it has no partition table? As in dd if=/dev/sda of=zipback ? Oh, and I don't think it's a mac thing. I reformatted to mac when i was using one, and usually put it on partition 1. --