On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:16:52AM -0500, Dave Reed wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:28:21 -0500 (EST)
> > Just got a new computer for a consulting job I'm doing. Installed
> > RedHat 6.2 and all errata and then tested the 250 MB zip drive (yes,
> > it does say 250 on the front). It won't read 250MB zip disks, but
> > reads 100 MB zip disks. I've got another computer with the same
> > hardware and Linux setup that reads 250 MB zip disks fine (same
> > disks). So I'm assuing it's a hardware problem and am going to ask
> > them to swap it out for a different one.
> > Anyone else seen this before (before I look stupid when I take it back
> > and they put it in a Windows machine and tell me it works fine :-)?
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> 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.
That would be your media, not the drive. /dev/hdd4 is partition
4 on IDE drive "d" (secondary controller, slave drive). /dev/hdd is the
entire drive. 100Meg zip drives (I don't have any 250's) come preformated
and partitioned like that. I routinely blow away the partition table and
simply do a mke2fs on /dev/hdd and turn the whole drive into one big
file system. Then it mounts at /dev/hdd and NOT at /dev/hdd4 as well
(and it's a few hundred K bigger). Sounds to me like the 250 Meg drives
are coming out preformated with no partition table and you are expected
to use the entire drive like a floppy instead of like a removable hard
drive like the default formating on the 100 Meg drives.
> Thanks,
> Dave
Mike
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