Re: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1

Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:50:10 -0400

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:27:33PM +0200, Petr Sebor wrote:
> I have observed that this one happened with the original TOOLs disk
> I got with the drive and I can confirm that it locates this disk always
> as sda1, not sda4... huh.. strange, I have always thought that the
> magic 4 is a hw issue... Ok, never mind...

Zip disks have partition tables. When you buy the disks they are usually
set up to have 1 partition which is partition number 4. You can use fdisk
to partition it however you want to. There is nothing that forces it to
be partition number 4. Do an:

fdisk /dev/sda

and see whats there.

Jim

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