Re: PC Formatted Zip Disks

[Leo Weppelman <leo%wau.mis.ah.nl@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:30:30PM -0400, Ben Bogart wrote:
> Hello all, 
> I've been trying to mount an msdos type zipdisk onto my Amiga and not getting 
> anywhere. The zip drive works as I have used it on the Amiga side without 
> problems. I've tried this command:
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/sd1c /mount
> 
> The Zip drive light does go on and I get the error:
> 
> mount_msdos: mount: Invalid argument
> 
> here is the disklabel for /dev/sd1:

Take a look at the Atari FAQ on www.netbsd.org. There is a section on ZIP
disks. They have an MBR type disklabel so you have to do some magic with
mbrlabel(8)....

Leo.