On 21 Aug 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote: > > >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active > >> partition. > > Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's > > No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a > Mac-compatible partition table and (of course) a Macintosh file > system. Indeed they do, luckily its the old hfs file system. hfs+ is not yet supported by the linux kernel. I found a hfs+ prject on sourcefoerge and it is in the pre alpha state. > > The 2.4 kernel has support for several partitioning schemes, including > Macintosh. So it should be possible to mount such a disk. > Even kernel 2.2 does. Frank
