[ale] Zip drive wierdness

[Douglas Knudsen]

I have the external zip.  It mounts under /dev/sda4 for vfat and /dev/sda1 for
ext2.   Is this the same for the internal ones??  This would explain not
working on other machines.


On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Josh Freeman wrote:
> 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
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> Center for Rehabilitation Technology, Georgia Tech
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