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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI zip drive experiences?
Date: 30 Oct 1996 12:05:01 -0000
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In article <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com>,
	nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
: If you want to make unix zip disks, puting this in the disktab
: will help:
: 
: zip:\
:	:ty=removable:se#512:nc#96:nt#64:ns#32:\
:	:pa#196608:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\
:	:pb#196608:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\
:	:pc#196608:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512:

Eek !  You've got your a and b partitions on the same space !  Bad news.
I'd suggest removing the pb line !  Also, you shouldn't need bc & fc.
Making these changes may even remove some warnings :)

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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