Re: putting an ext2 filesystem on a zipdrive

[Hanigan Family]

>>Hi all,
>>I am trying to put a linux file system on a zip drive
>>I delete current partition, create new linux partition
>>than I write partition table to disk. Using fdisk or
>>cfdisk both  work fine.
>>Next I try
>>mke2fs /dev/hdb1
>>and I get I/O errors I thought this was the command
>>to format the disk but am wondering if I am missing
>>a step is there a seperate command 2 format the
>>zip drive before it makes the filesystem? or do
>>I have a bad zipdisk?
>>            Linda
>
>Why do you want to change the zip disk file system?
>
I want to use cpio to write backup and restore files from it.

>What are the error messages?
>
ide-floppy:hdb:I/O error, pc=2a,key=4,arc=47,asc9=0
:end_request:I/o error,dev 03:41(hdb),sector 138

The first message repeats followed by 2nd message with different
sector number over 30 thimes

Linda


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