Re: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1

jasonq@us.ibm.com
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:53:22 -0400


Zip disks come partitioned as the fourth partition to allow MacOS to access
them. Your tools disc, if it has the MacOS software on it, should have two
partitions. Changing a disc from partition 4 to partition 1 will break
compatibility with MacOS, but not with Windows NT or Windows 95.

I had my Zip drive set up as /dev/zip -> /dev/sdd4 and, in the course of
dealing with the infamous click, I fdisked one disk with Windows 95's fdisk,
making it /dev/sdd1. I tried using Linux's fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk to fix it.
Even Iomega's format (long and short) didn't fix it. The way I finally return
the disk to partition 4 was to boot into Windows 95, used the latest IomegaWare
(downloadable from Iomega's web site) to create a boot (or system) disk on it.

Jason Quartarone

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