On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
>       Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
> drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
> format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?

ZIP drives are treated as hard drives: /dev/hd[a-d]4, if you have the
IDE version.  Most (all?) ZIP disks come preformatted for PC (vfat) or
Mac (HPFS?).  You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk
as ext2.

Noel
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