Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

1999-11-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andresito del Hierro wrote: > I have read everywhere that all the ZIP disks are formated /dev/sda4 > but I got a bunch of ZIPs that are /dev/sda1, that is no problem at > all, but only curious about that. I also saw that JAZIP does not read > them, but I guess is only that I have not set up the c

Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

1999-11-20 Thread Andresito del Hierro
Hallo John! thanks! Yes I know that, I my self have acces here in the uni to 2 diferent versions of the Zip Drive, the question goes to the zip disks. I found some that are formated from factory and read only at /dev/sda1 and others with the normal /dev/sda4. About the ZIP-linux is easy; read car

Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

1999-11-20 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, It appears there are at least a couple different models of the ZIP drive for the parallel port. The one I have now does not work with the PPA support, but works fine with the IMM package. I always have to use /dev/sda4 to access it. I recently tried to build a small debian linux system o

/dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

1999-11-19 Thread Andresito del Hierro
Hello all! I have read everywhere that all the ZIP disks are formated /dev/sda4 but I got a bunch of ZIPs that are /dev/sda1, that is no problem at all, but only curious about that. I also saw that JAZIP does not read them, but I guess is only that I have not set up the conf. file correctly. Re