Jeld The Dark Elf wrote:
> There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for
> windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while the ones
> formatted with ext2 are /dev/hdd1. Don't know why.
I've never seen any formatted with ext2 unless I had done it
myself, in which case I did whatever I wanted.
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz advised people
to do this in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
/dev/sda4 /zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777
These entries assume that you have a /zip and a /zipdos
directory. With the fstab entries as above you can mount a dos
disk with mount /zipdos If you are using a linux ext2 disk then
use the command mount /zip
This could explain why many people have taken to do this.
If your Zip drive is SCSI (or you use SCSI emulation to access
it), you can use jazip to access it and it will figure out what
partition the data is on and whether its formatted vfat or ext2.
Peter
