Has anyone noticed the fact that 'internet business' has posted to quite a
few threads like this?
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> >"Mike A. Harris" ha escrito:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Petr Sebor wrote:
> >>
> >> >I thought that zip drive is hardwired ad 4th device, but sometimes Linux
> >> >discovers it under /dev/sda1 not /dev/sda4. This gives me troubles with
> >> >my /etc/fstab since I don't know, where the zip drive will be next time...
> >> >
> >> >If you want detailed report, please contact me...
> >>
> >> ZIP disks are IDE devices that contain a partition table. Most
> >> if not all ZIP disks come from the factory partitioned with
> >> Primary partition 4 taking up the whole disk. WHY THE HELL they
> >> chose that is anyone's guess.
> >>
> >> As such, any factory zip disks are mounted as /dev/sda4. If you
> >> repartition them yourself however, or if anyone else does, then
> >> the rules can certainly change indeed.
> >>
> >> Personally, I would either use all zip disks on sda4, or I would
> >> force partition them to /dev/sda1.
> >>
> >> I don't see any other easy way around it.
> >>
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