Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a ZIP100 medium formatted as ext2 in the superfloppy format.
> On the first machine the medium works flawlessly. On the second machine
> the superblock is invalid. I am not sure whether this is mkfs or the
> kernel, but I don't understand how this could be without kernel
> involvement. The behavior is the same under 2.2.14 and 2.3.50.
>
Could you check if one of the ZIP drives is jumpered in "A:" mode? if a
ZIP drive is in "A:" mode, then it automagically hides the first 32
sectors from a disk. (compare the capacity)
IIRC you should always put one partition that start on sector 32 on a
ZIP drive, and you should never change that.
--
Manfred
