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
>
> "F" == F Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "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
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> Don't know if this is much help, as mine is a USB connection, but I got it to
> work by enabling mass storage on USB, and also by enabling SCSI emulation for
> the device - you may need to do the same - this may be the origin of the
> bizarre
> mess
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Peter Bartosch wrote:
> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active partition.
>
> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's
>
>
>
I thought it's got something to do with MS DOS/Win. There was a discussion
about ZIP drives on this list a couple
On 17 Aug 2001 18:30:58 -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > There is an option for specifying a block size when mounting, you
> > could try the option "blocksize=1024". Your mount command would look
> > like this:
> >
> > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point
>
> I tried this just now
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On Friday 17 August 2001 17:38, Phil Edwards wrote:
> I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
> so please cc me on replies.
>
> Quick version: after perusing the archives of this list, I found my
> ZIP-250 drive (hdd)
Forgive me if this seems a little shallow, but
it sounds as if the Zip disk isn't formatted (or
not formatted vfat). Even if it worked before,
in the hot humid weather (that much of the
northern hemisphere is now experiencing) Zip
disks can go bad. If there's no valuable data on
the disk, why not g
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Thus spake Sean Quinlan:
> > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00):
> > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> > > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024
Thus spake Sean Quinlan:
> * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00):
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point
> >
> > I tried this just now,
Hi!
> FirstLast
> # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
> -- --- - -- - --
> -
> 4 Primary0 196607 32 196608 FAT16 (06) Boot
> (80)
> [~]#
>
> I've
* Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00):
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point
>
> I tried this just now, still no joy. I am seeing something
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
> * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> > I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
> > so please cc me on replies.
>
> Done, I'd suggest sending all replies to this mail to the list as
* Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50):
> I'm not subscribed -- haven't needed help yet, Debian is that good :-) --
> so please cc me on replies.
Done, I'd suggest sending all replies to this mail to the list as well as
myself,
as you'll reach a much larger audience :)
> Quick ve
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