OK I tried that today and it still won't read nor write to the zip drive. I tried writing to zip drive as regular user and root: 'cannot write to device 'and 'writting to devices are not supported" are the error messages I'm getting. Even though i formated the disk in linux just like you said. Ok I'm about to give up and try Red Hat, I'm beginning to think this might be a bug in Mandrake, I can see no reason why this won't work, if anyone else has had problems with zip drives with Mandrake please respond.
On Monday 15 March 2004 12:41 am, bascule wrote: > hmm, from what i read zip disks have only one partition on them but it is > always number four, for some sort of compatibility reasons, i'd suggest > making sure you have a backup of what's on it because i'm not sure that you > should have that result, perhaps backing up in winxp and then making a > filesystem on it using linux and seeing if that can be read by winxp, > you can use fdisk to delete all partitions on it, then create just one, > specifying its number as four, give it an id of 'c' for fat32, then make a > filesystem on it: > mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda4 > see if this shows up in winxp > i'm afraid that apart from this i'm all out of ideas > > bascule > > On Monday 15 Mar 2004 2:28 am, acid wrote: > > OK it list 4 partitions and they all say: > > "partition has differnet physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?)" > > "Does not end on cylinder boundary"
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