At 8:16 PM 8/18/97, wb2oyc@bellatlantic.net wrote:
>re: bigtime trouble with the Zip disk.....
>I forget what the magic was....its related to the fact that the mkfs
>sees the device differently than the installed system does.  In other
>words, mkfs sees a different disk organization (heads, sectors, etc)
>than the kernel thinks it is when you finally get around to booting
>it.  Thats why the fs is eternally corrupt according to the running
>kernel.  I'll try to dig around and find the messages where the
>secret that worked for me will be found....if I find it, I'll send it along
>to you.  I believe it was using a different number of sectors when
>building the fs than mkfs wants to use; you have to override the
>settings if I remember right thats what did the trick for me.

This rings a bell.  Is there a version of MacOS mkfs which does the "right
thing"?

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