Subject: Re: Zip Drives
To: Mike Sienicki <mike@cpdist.com>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 08/25/1998 08:54:47
On Mon 17 Aug 1998, Mike Sienicki wrote:
> Howdy,
> Is the Zip Drive currently supported under NetBSD V1.3.2? I know that the
> system
> does recognize the drive, but, I am unable to mount an msdos partitioned
> Zip disk. I think that the system was complaining that the disk was
> lacking an
> appropriate partition. How can I partition this disk to be compatible with
> the system. Am I lacking something? Is there yet any way to format a Zip
> disk with either an FFS or msdos format? Dying of curiosity.
I was hoping someone familiar with a ZIP drive would standup, I can only
make guesses ;-)
I have the feeling that the disklabel on the ZIP-disk is not the type of
label that is recognized by the NetBSD/atari code. Maybe endian problems?
Did you try disklabel on the zip? If so, does it say something sensible?
If not, you can try disklabel (or edlabel) to try put a label on it.
Leo.