zip drive errors

[Justin Bennett]

yeah use a blank disk, or even put one in with stuff on it. Try ding a fdisk
/dev/hdd and see if you can see the partitions on them. If it's been used in
windows you should be able to see the partitions, maybe it's not on 4...


Michael wrote:

> Justin,   the disks I've been trying to read have info written on them from
> various windows sessions and are IBM formatted as per the label. I'm
> figuring that I should still be able to read them as I can read floppy disks
> that have been used in windows. I will try a blank disk and give
> fdisk/dev/hdd a shot when my wife is done using my machine for her work. As
> for creating a FAT partition on partition 4, do you mean the zip disk
> itself?
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Bennett" <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
> To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: zip drive errors
>
> > No is should be hdd. I have in internal one also. The parrelel version
> uses scsi
> > emulation over the parralel (spelling) port, and appears as a scsi device.
> The
> > ATAPI ide ones appear as hddx.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > Michael Osika wrote:
> >
> > > Pete,  I have also read in other sources on the net ( Linux Gazette )
> that
> > > it should be a scsi device but I wasn't sure if this was right. I'm
> willing
> > > to give it a shot but how do I go about changing from hdd4 to sda4, and
> > > being new to Linux, being specific is again appreciated. :-)   I have
> played
> > > around with different tools but have not found a way to change things. I
> > > don't want to meddle too much when I'm not sure what consequences will
> be.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "peter" <pvant67 at wnyip.net>
> > > To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:24 PM
> > > Subject: Re: zip drive errors
> > >
> > > > Mike: the zip drive should be /dev/sda4, since it's a scsi device
> > > > internally, regardless of the actual type of interface used. At least,
> > > > that's what it wes on my parallel port model. I bet it's the same on
> > > > yours. Either way, keep us posted
> > > > --
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> ass,
> > > > and the corpse of one's enemy shall be carried past shortly."
> > > > -- spotted somewhere on Usenet
> > > >
> > >
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