Re: [PARPORT] ZIP - bad partition?


Tom Lominac (lominactc@vax.vmi.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:10:45 -0000


Are you by any chance testing with the Zip Tools disk which comes with the
drive? It is partitioned oddly so that it can hold both the PC and Mac
software.

-----Original Message-----

>An update on my zip mounting problems.
>
>dd if=/dev/sda of=data.txt count=16:
> drive is accessed, and a file is created; file data.txt reports
> type 'data'.
>
>fdisk /dev/sda and p returns:
>Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda4 1 1 2142 2193280 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 3, 1)
>Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(15, 63, 32) logical=(2141, 58, 32)
>
>

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