I see, didn't know that (all my media happen to be formatted like /dev/hdb)

Thanks for the info !

Michak

Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

>� ���, 10.03.2002, � 22:54, Michal Bukovjan �������:
>
>>This is just a warning for cooker developers about ZIP drives.
>>
>>Certain clones, like NEC ATAPI ZIP drive, should *NOT* be mounted as 
>>/dev/hdb4, but /dev/hdb.
>>
>
>It depends on how Zip _media_ has been formatted, there is no way to
>know it in advance.
>
>You can create any partition (not always partition 4) or do not create
>any partition and use the whole media. You could just as well create
>file system on /dev/hda instead of partitioning it.
>
>Having some tool to figure out the correct partition table on Zip drive
>and mount it correctly would be great of course. Actually it may even be
>possible ... devfs + up-to-date updfstab or diskdrake. 
>
>-andrej
>
>


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