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SubjectRe: ZIP drive as /dev/sda1
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Internet Business wrote:

Looks like you geared up to reply to my post, but the words
didn't make it out. Feel free to send it again with your reply
or whatever if you like and I'll try and help out.

Take care,
TTYL

>"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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