On Friday 05 January 2001 04:15 pm, you wrote:
> Goldenpi wrote:
> > They are both scsi. You have to mount them as such. its /dev/sd?? for
> > scsi stuff. Zip drives are always on partition 4 (sd?4).
>
> Well, let me make a small comment about that. I know its different, I have
> an internal IDE Zip drive, and I always used 4 as the partition in my
> /etc/fstab line as well. However, I had my 'Nix box at the local county
> Library swapping files with the Lib administrator (a close friend of mine
> who is a Linux admirer as well). If he formatted any Zip cart under Win
> 2000, my setup could not read it. He even booted up into a MS-DOS floppy
> environment, and formatted a Zip cart from there and I still could not read
> it. However, if I change that 4 to a 1...then I can read his formatted
> carts. Then however, I could no longer read my Zip carts (even though they
> came from the factory pre-formatted). So...I thought I'd be creative and
> leave the partition number off from the fstab line. Heh, then it wouldn't
> read *any* Zip carts. <smile>
>
> Anybody out there know why this is, and if there is a remedy? Thanks!
Yes, you might have to do a search, but I've seen info that indicates you
have to use one or the other of 1 or 4 and vfat or efs2 can't do both at the
same time. I think I saw this in the HOWTO's.
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Dennis M.
Registered Linux user #180842
