Subject: Re: PC Formatted Zip Disks
To: Ben Bogart <bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca>
From: Frank-Ralph Reiser <Frank.Ralph@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 09/29/1999 06:51:00
Hi.

The original Iomega Zip Disks are partitioned: You have to use the 4th primary
partition to access the ZIP-Drive.
On the Nomia-zip-discs it is the 1st.

Hope this helps.

Frank-Ralph.

> I've been trying to mount an msdos type zipdisk onto my Amiga and not getting
> anywhere. The zip drive works as I have used it on the Amiga side without
> problems. I've tried this command:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/sd1c /mount