[ltp] zip drives

[Joachim F. Selinger]

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Hi Neil!

>Thanks Jocki, that did it! I had tried a few other mount points (hdc1, hdc2 
>in particular), but using hdc4 did not occur to me. I stopped short of 
>trying every possible mount point as it seemed to me that there *must* be 
>an easier way to find the correct mount points for devices (for example how 
>id you know ZIP disks use default partition 4?). Anything along these lines 
>available, or should I just wait for devfs assuming it makes it into 2.4?

I'm glad it was of help. I did once configure the mtools to be used with
the zip drive as well and there they mentioned that one needs to skip 
the first 16kbytes to get the actual file system.

OTOH, if you just use fdisk on an inserted zip disk, you'll see the used
partitions in the partition table and you can mount with certainty the 
right one :-)

Take care
Jocki

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