Subject: Re: Formatting a ZIP disk
To: ben <ben@eden.com>
From: Jon Howell <jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/1995 13:44:27
> > Hi, I've tried formatting my ZIP disk with the suggested version of
> > Apple's hard drive utility and it doesn't seem to be able to write to it.
> > Anyone have any suggestions? I'm stuck...
> I've been trying for a while, but no one on this group seemed to know,
> and when I left a message with Iomega's braindead webmaster asking about
> bytes/inode et cetera, he replied and said "Hey, oh, man, I heard Linux
> is cool, have you used it?" The online tech libraries at www.iomega.com
> are useless.....I've almost given up. If you find a way, let me know.
Am I missing something, here? If I format my Zip disk with Iomega tools,
then partition it with Silverlining (which replaces the Iomega driver :v(
can't figure out how to fix this), I can mkfs and mount it.
--Jon
Jon Howell
jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jonh