I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. ------------------------------------------------------- You can (or should be able to) make an ext2 filesystem on a zip or jazz drive using the mkfs command. (I have done this with floppies). Again, this is not low level formating (the sector address marks are not touched). The operation is still a raw write to physical sectors without any fs operations. That's what I mean by a highlevel format. Some hard disks cannot be low level formated (I think the ls120 super disks cannot) because they use laser holes for clock marks. The jazz and zip drives maynot expose this to the interface ie: the drive is not capable of doing a low level format, so you must by pre-formatted media. I was not sure if the low -level format for the zips were different between the pc and mac flavors, I guess only the high level file system stuff is different.
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