[ale] Zip drive wierdness

[Scott]

Howdy

I think you missed the Q.  

A) He takes zip media that works in one box but not in his
new and improved box.

B) The two drives test good in a third box and the media
work in a 3rd box.


sts

----- Forwarded message from Josh Freeman <josh.freeman at arch.gatech.edu> -----


Zips mount funny. They want to be mounted as /dev/hdx4. If you mount
them on /dev/hdx1, the will not be readable elsewhere. Go figure

Robert Stickel wrote:
> 
> ALEers,
> 
> We have an old Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) system with an ATA Zip drive.
> Everything was installed and working normally on a Pentium-Pro mobo.  We
> recently swapped out the mobo for an AMD K6-2 board and everything still
> works except the Zip.  We can format, read and write on the problem
> system but can't exchange disks with any other box (i.e. disks that work
> on other boxen show up as having bad partition tables, etc on the
> problem box and vice versa).  It doesn't seem to be a drive problem - we
> have swapped out the drive with one known to work and tried both primary
> and secondary IDE controllers (hdb, hdd) with the same results.
> 
> Anybody seen anything like this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --bob
> 
> Robert Stickel
> rstickel at mindspring.com
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Josh Freeman
System Support Specialist
Center for Rehabilitation Technology, Georgia Tech
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