Re: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1

Petr Sebor (petr@scssoft.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:27:33 +0200


I have observed that this one happened with the original TOOLs disk
I got with the drive and I can confirm that it locates this disk always
as sda1, not sda4... huh.. strange, I have always thought that the
magic 4 is a hw issue... Ok, never mind...

Thanks for your tip !
Petr Sebor

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Petr Sebor
Technology/Engine Development
SCS Software [ http://www.scssoft.com ]

> I can't be sure on this but when you buy a ZIP Disk from a shop they are > formated as an extended partions (ie /dev/sda4) However if you fdisk > them/format them under Linux then it creates them as an primary partion (ie > /dev/sda1). Try doing > > fdisk -l /dev/sda. > > This will show the configuration of the zip disk. The best I can suggest is > to remove the entry out of the fstab and then mount it manually when you've > logged in. > > Rus >

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