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From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: putting an ext2 filesystem on a zipdrive
>Linda responded:
>
>>>Why do you want to change the zip disk file system?
>>>
>>I want to use cpio to write backup and restore files from it.
>
>Oh yuch! There is a little less than 100MB per disk, very inefficient.
>
It beats quad density floppies which is what I have had to use with our
old unix computer. Actually it isn't too bad for my programs and datafiles
we run console apps so they are small and everything will fit on one
zip drive.
>>>What are the error messages?
>>>
>>ide-floppy:hdb:I/O error, pc=2a,key=4,arc=47,asc9=0
>>:end_request:I/o error,dev 03:41(hdb),sector 138
>>
>>The first message repeats followed by 2nd message with different
>>sector number over 30 thimes
>
>Sounds like you are using the wrong partition. What partition did you use
>with fdisk?
>
I created partition 1 and when I checked it with cfdisk it lists partition 1
as
a linux partition and the only one on the disk. I guess I could try it
making
it 4 and see if that works.
Linda
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