On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: > > Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: > > I hate to interrupt a perfectly good thread, but can you give more > details about whatever this "trick" is, and what the deal is with the > 4th partition?
There is some crazy way they format/partition the disks so they work on both macs and pc's, but it results in you needing to use the 4th partition on pc's. That's about all I know, except that Iomega isn't the only one to do this, Syquest does this too I think. > I have an atapi zip drive, and if I hadn't read the messages very early > in the bootup sequence with a zip disk in the drive, I never would've > known to mount my zip disks on the 4th partition (/dev/hdd4). I read > the zip HOWTO, but didn't find any mention of this. Mounting on the > fourth partition works, but it seems wrong because fdisk doesn't show > anything like that. I've got a zip disk too, which is why I'm familiar with this problem. I thought my partition table looked weird like that too. But I went ahead and repartitioned/reformated the disks for e2fs. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
