I've got a IDE Iomega 100MB drive on machine A and a IDE Iomega 250MB
drive on machine B.
A 100 MB disk inserted into either drive is recognised without any evident
problems (as hdb4) at startup, mounted, read from and written to, without
any problems. Including the switch -t vfat in the mount command has the
consequence of preserving long filenames, otherwise the default is 8.3.
A 250 MB disk inserted into machine B results in the message
"The drive reports both 250609664 and 25060384 bytes as its capacity"
but otherwise everything seems to work just fine as described above for
the 100MB disk. I observe that much has been written about this and people
seem to be bothered more by the inconvenience of the message than by
anxieties about any real physical ambiguities it might imply. I shall
assume that reading from and writing to a 250MB disk are, as they appear
to be, failsafe operations (as far as anything is).
Unlike writing to a NTFS file system, for instance.
Any comments?
Fergus
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PS So far I have only formatted either disk using Iomega software under
W98. I do not know whether a similarly ambiguous message would result
using a different format.
