Mike Adolf wrote:
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:Mike,
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
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
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