Re: ATAPI 250 Zip and SCSI 100 Zip compatible?

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 10:34:33 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:20:06PM +0200, FAVRE Grégoire wrote:

> At my office, I have an external SCSI Zip 100, and at home one 250 ATAPI one...
> One day I do a tar cvfM /dev/sda /data/installed of about 550 of rpm... and
> at home, I try tar Mxvf /dev/hdc and got a message saying me that the disk don't begin with a
> tar file and that tar go further and take the file, then it extract the files, but as I change
> the cartidge, tar tells me that the new cartidge is not the continuation of the first one, and
> if I re tar Mxvf /dev/hdc, it continue the same way...
> So I have tried to mke2fs -c /dev/sda and mounted it on my office machine without any problem.
> When I came home, noway to make my Zip recognize the "partition" hdc...
> Other try, I make an hdc1 on the whole disk with fdisk and etx2is it, that disk got read from
> my Zip 100 at work to don't have a partition table???
>
> Could someone explain me?

See
        http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html

[Additions and corrections are welcome - aeb@cwi.nl]

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