Mike,On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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
Don't worry about it. It sound like the driver is doing something for you that I wasn't expecting. In the long run, it will make things less complicated for people. It will make things interesting for people with both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, but things are interesting for them anyway. For me, it is just one more difference between 9.2 and 10.1 to remember...
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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