Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Joshua Jore
Greg, Just to make a point on that, as I recall Zip and other super floppy media *shouldn't* be partitioned. It's certainly possible to do but it's anyone's guess on how different OS+revs will treat it. Josh __SIG__ On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known > partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this. > > When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive. > Problem is, you havn't put in

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: > I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see: > > Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = > 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 > Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: unknown partition table > Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc:

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see: Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: unknown partition table Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc:

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known partitions. fdisk or mount do this. When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive. Problem is, you havn't put in one. So

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Joshua Jore
Greg, Just to make a point on that, as I recall Zip and other super floppy media *shouldn't* be partitioned. It's certainly possible to do but it's anyone's guess on how different OS+revs will treat it. Josh __SIG__ On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at

Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-14 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see: Jun 11 23:52:35 greg sudo: greg : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/greg ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/e2fsck /dev/hdc Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel:

Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-14 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see: Jun 11 23:52:35 greg sudo: greg : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/greg ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/e2fsck /dev/hdc Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: