Subject: Re: ZIP drives
To: None <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu>
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/26/1995 10:13:17
Well, I finally got the ZIP 100 drive and am able to read the MSDOS
filesystem I wrote there using a Macintosh (go figure).
The disklabel I used is slightly different from either of those suggested.
I tried Phil Knaack's suggestion, and it was almost right. But I found that
to read my data I had to start the partition at offset 32 instead of 0 (and
make corresponding the reduction in size). I wonder if this has to do with
the MSDOS partition table on the disk (I partitioned the disk and formatted
the MSDOS filesystem on a PC using Windows NT, and wrote the files on a
Macintosh with PC File Exchange).
type: SCSI
disk: zip100
label: zip100
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 32
tracks/cylinder: 64
sectors/cylinder: 2048
cylinders: 96
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
4 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 196576 32 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 95*)
d: 196608 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 95)