Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > > zip drive? > Yes > It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
Where would we be without the number 4? :-) It seems to work now. > the disks are partitiond (try /dev/sda4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread sjc
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > zip drive? Yes It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is partition 4 (for no apprent reason) > Is "insmod ppa" only for parallel port

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port zip drive? Is "insmod ppa" only for parallel port zip drives, or for scsi too? Mine is scsi. I have exactly one scsi device (the zip drive) and have in the past used /dev/sda. Do the disks normally come preformatted with four

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread sjc
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:00:04PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > Macs can read zip disks in either mac format or msdos format (as preformatted, > though not as formatted under Linux). So the interchangeability options > that I seem to have right now are either > mac & w95 > or else > linux &

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
Macs can read zip disks in either mac format or msdos format (as preformatted, though not as formatted under Linux). So the interchangeability options that I seem to have right now are either mac & w95 or else linux & w95 Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the format on zip / jazz disks OS

RE: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-11 Thread Athas Nikolakakos
s.debian.org > Subject: zip disks unreadable > > > I have some IBM preformatted (msdos format) zip disks. I'm able to store > files onto them using a mac at work. But I'm then unable to read them > under Linux -- something like a bad supernode or something. If under &

zip disks unreadable

1998-05-11 Thread David B Wilson
I have some IBM preformatted (msdos format) zip disks. I'm able to store files onto them using a mac at work. But I'm then unable to read them under Linux -- something like a bad supernode or something. If under Linux I make an msdos file system on the zip disk, I'm able to read and write to the