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From: sijben@pegasus.esprit.ec.org (Paul Sijben)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Formatting Zip for NetBSD/Mac68k?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 06:33:15 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
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In article <tycheung-2901971707540001@tycheung.millburn.org>, tycheung@ultrasparc.millburn.org (Tyler Cheung) writes:
>Has anyone been able to set up a Zip
>disk for NetBSD? If so what settings did they use for mkfs?
I am using a Zip drive on my NetBSD/i386 box. I use newfs to put an ffs on
the zip disks (on partition d). That works but produces errors when newfs can
not rewrite the disklabel. Ignoring the errors works fine :-)
Paul
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