[linux-help] Re: Setting up a Zip drive with Linux...How?

["Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> Haha.
> 
> Leave it up to Apple to screw things up more than necessary :-)

how much is the necessary amount of screw ups?

> 
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:37:33PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> > At 01:38 PM 4/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >Once the proper support is in the kernel, you will need to mount /dev/sda4
> > >on a normally-formatted Zip disk (for some reason unknown to me, a Zip disk
> > >is by default formatted to use the 4th partition... you can reformat and
> > >change that, and it still works fine in other OSes, as far as I can tell...
> > >but if you buy a pre-formatted Zip disk, you'll typically need to use
> > >/dev/sda4 instead of /dev/sda1).
> > >
> >
> > I forget where I read this, but I remember that Zip and Jaz drives start of
> > the 4th partition because of Macintosh.  Something about Macintosh using
> > the first three partitions for system information and data starts getting
> > stored on the 4th partition.
> >
> > Ryan
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