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 -- Immanuel V. Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It is the fate of Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry | operating systems Cornell University | to become free. | - Neal Stephenson