Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:51:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1 |
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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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