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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Accessing Iomega ZIP FAT Data?
Message-ID: <kientzleDy9rF7.8x0@netcom.com>
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References: <5286up$31s@pacific.discover.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 03:37:55 GMT
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I've done it for months now; works great. The only oddity I've found
is that pre-formatted ZIP disks put the Primary FAT partition in
slice 3(!), while the default if you format them manually (under
MSDOS) puts the Primary FAT partition in slice 0. <sigh>
Annoying, but not serious. I've been thinking about dumping a
raw MSDOS-formatted ZIP disk to a file, and keeping it around
(compressed, of course) to use in formatting new ZIP disks. That
would be convenient. (I also use raw ZIP disks as backup media.)
- Tim
In article <5286up$31s@pacific.discover.net>,
Kolin E. Hand <kehand@pacific.discover.net> wrote:
>Does FreeBSD allow using ZIP drives that already contain data written
>in FAT format?
>
>I am interested in knowing if I can mount a ZIP disk using something
>like:
> mount -t msdos /dev/sd3a /mnt
>
>I currently have 2.1 Release and an Iomega ZIP Drive (SCSI).