Thanks for that clarification. I think someone went looking for some tar and feathers. :)
BTW - Someone posted that it would be unwise to reformat for Linux because of the lack of Iomega disk tools causing data loss. Please elaborate. We've been working and reformatting disks on our Macs sans the tools (we just have the basic driver loaded). Also, when you get the option to do maintanance to the disk on a Windoze system, the standard defrag/scandisk dialogue comes up, and the reformat is the stock Windows flavor. The only good I've seen with the utilities is the find utility, so I don't load them. Is there something I'm missing? I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. Mike You wrote: > Ok let me correct myself. What you did was to highlevel format the > zip drive to work with a dos or mac file system (like doing a mkfs). > But you CANNOT lowlevel format a zip drive to increase it's capacity > as you can for a floppy. You have no control over the drive's > lowlevel parameters.
