I don't know what version of mkfs you are using, but mine can't guess 
anything about the disk. I'm not sure about you, but I'm just not good 
enough with disks to know how many bytes/inode I have....heheheh
Thank you, people who wrote in, for the info.


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On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Jon Howell wrote:

> > > Hi, I've tried formatting my ZIP disk with the suggested version of
> > > Apple's hard drive utility and it doesn't seem to be able to write to it. 
> > > Anyone have any suggestions?  I'm stuck...
> > I've been trying for a while, but no one on this group seemed to know, 
> > and when I left a message with Iomega's braindead webmaster asking about 
> > bytes/inode et cetera, he replied and said "Hey, oh, man, I heard Linux 
> > is cool, have you used it?" The online tech libraries at www.iomega.com 
> > are useless.....I've almost given up. If you find a way, let me know. 
> Am I missing something, here? If I format my Zip disk with Iomega tools,
> then partition it with Silverlining (which replaces the Iomega driver :v(
> can't figure out how to fix this), I can mkfs and mount it.
> 
> 	--Jon
> 
>                             Jon Howell
>                  jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu
>      http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jonh
> 
>