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Iomega ships the disks on partition 4 due to some incompatabilities with
the Macintosh if it's *not* on 4. I don't remember the details on this,
though.
I repartition my iomega disks, so that /dev/sda1 is a Linux partition,
usually 50mb, and /dev/sda4 is IBM. Windows 95 can see the Linux
partition of the Zip disk if you use a program that reads ext2fs, but the
Mac will never know about the partition numbered 1.
- Mike
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Erika wrote:
>
> > Is this correct? Is there anything more I need to do? What devices will
> > the accelerator card and zip drive be listed as, and how do I know whether
> > they're working?
>
> During bootup you should see the drive found. The actual result may
> depend upon the other scsi devices you have. If there are none, your
> drive should be found as /dev/sda (scsi-disk-a). If its the second it
> would be /dev/sdb, etc. It will be useful for you to know that
> Iomega ships its disks with the partition table set to partition 4, GOK
> why. I always use fdisk on a new disk to set it to partition 1. Remember
> it must be linux-native. You can then create an ext2 file system on it,
> "it" now being /dev/sda1. If you didn't change the partition you would
> have had to use /dev/sda4. As you see, the whole operation is much like
> that for a fixed disk, but these are removable.
>
> I have fould the Zip drives very useful for backups. Good Luck,
>
> Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
> Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879
> http://www.unl.edu/physics/
>
>
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