Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > > zip drive? > Yes > It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
Where would we be without the number 4? :-) It seems to work now. > the disks are partitiond (try /dev/sda4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread sjc
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > zip drive? Yes It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is partition 4 (for no apprent reason) > Is "insmod ppa" only for parallel port

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port zip drive? Is "insmod ppa" only for parallel port zip drives, or for scsi too? Mine is scsi. I have exactly one scsi device (the zip drive) and have in the past used /dev/sda. Do the disks normally come preformatted with four

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread sjc
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:00:04PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > Macs can read zip disks in either mac format or msdos format (as preformatted, > though not as formatted under Linux). So the interchangeability options > that I seem to have right now are either > mac & w95 > or else > linux &

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
Macs can read zip disks in either mac format or msdos format (as preformatted, though not as formatted under Linux). So the interchangeability options that I seem to have right now are either mac & w95 or else linux & w95 Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the format on zip / jazz disks OS

RE: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-11 Thread Athas Nikolakakos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the format on zip / jazz disks OS specific? Meaning you can't interchange them between 95 / mac ? (Linex / 95 will work because they both accept the same FAT). ... ..Athas Nikolakakos...