On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > >On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>I guess the driver, or udev, is translating the partition table or > >>something, so that /dev/hdd is what would be /dev/hdd4 in 9.2. I'll have > >>to dig out my USB ZIP drive, and see how that is handled. I suspect that > >>that will still use the /dev/sd?4 for ZIP disks. I am not sure how it > >>would handle a disk that wasn't partitioned yet. It could make > >>partitioning and formating a ZIP disk a problem under Linux! What does > >>"fdisk -l /dev/hdd" show? > >> > >>Mikkel > > > >Here are the partitions. Remember that this was formatted on XP as FAT32. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fdisk -l /dev/hdd > > > >Disk /dev/hdd: 100 MB, 100646912 bytes > >64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 95 cylinders > >Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >/dev/hdd1 ? 379950 937327 570754815+ 72 Unknown > >Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > > phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(379949, 11, 5) > >Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(937326, 59, 3) > >Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >/dev/hdd2 ? 82368 1027695 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 > >Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > > phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(82367, 59, 19) > >Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1027694, 14, 2) > >Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >/dev/hdd3 ? 913029 1858355 968014096 79 Unknown > >Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > > phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(913028, 3, 26) > >Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1858354, 20, 25) > >Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >/dev/hdd4 ? 1409025 1409052 27749+ d Unknown > >Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > > phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1409024, 0, 1) > >Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1409051, 6, 11) > >Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > > >Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > >Mike > > Mike, > How did you format it in XP? Did you use the ZIP tools to format it, or > did you right click on the drive icon, and pick format? Does XP see it > as a ZIP drive, or as an IDE floppy drive? The reason I ask is because > it is possible to format a ZIP drive without a partition table. When you > do that, you get the kind of results from fdisk that you show here, as > well as the mounting problems we ran into. It isn't a big problem doing > it that way, except that if this is the case, then you will have > problems if you try to use a ZIP disk that is formatted the standard > way. XP probably will not care... > > Mikkel
I just right clicked and picked FAT32. However, I also used a new IOMEGA disk (right out of the box) which I assume was formated by IOMEGA. When I did fdisk I got the same kind of results. Should I try something else, like obtaining IOMEGA fomatting software (download?). What if I format using mke2fs (ext2), do think all would go back to normal then (what ever that is!). I just would not use the disk in windows. This should not be so damn complicated and difficult!! (oops linux fustration showing). Mike Mike
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