> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dave Reed wrote:
> >
> > I didn't receive any replies, but after trying a number of things, I
> > found that a 250 MB zip mounts on the new machine at:
> >
> > /dev/hdd
> >
> > but on the older machine, it mounts at:
> >
> > /dev/hdd4
> >
> > I thought all zip disks mounted on partition 4. It appears to work
> > fine. Any ideas why? The company claims it's the same model of zip
> > drive.
> >
> Depends on how the ZIP disk is partitioned I think. See about
> fdisking that disk under windows and see if it will then mount at
> hdd4. Or, do you have any "factory partitioned" Zip250 disks? If so,
> see where THEY mount.... ISTR a thread in LinuxNewbie list or one of
> the other lists a long while back about this. Turns out, IIRC, that if
> you format/partition the Zip disk at home, it mounts at hdd, but if
> you use a factory formatted/partitioned disk, it mounts at hdd4. :-)
> John
I buy that, except that I'm using the same zip disk in two different
machines. In one it mounts at /dev/hdd4 and in the other it will only
mount at /dev/hdd. Makes no sense to me. I wondered if there was
something wrong with the drive, but it copies files back and forth ok.
Dave
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