PaleBlue (ej41169@goodnet.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:36:26 -0700 (MST)
Nope, its a standard preformatted pc zip disk. Its happening with every zip
disk I have. When I fdisk the disk, and create a new partition 4 with an
end cylinder of 96, it goes right back to having 2193280 blocks the next time
its fdisked.
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Tom Lominac wrote:
> 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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