I would assume that three other SCSI devices exist, but the reason for the 4th partition is that Win* and DOS software for the Zip drive look for and make their fat partitions on the 4th partition. I assume it is so they can have an HFS partition somewhere else, but I don't know (Mac people?). I can format the 1st partition as ext2 and have two entries in my fstab (it is my second SCSI device): /dev/sdb1 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,owner 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /mnt/dos/zip vfat noauto,owner 0 0 and if I stay with that convention I will get appropriate errors when I try to mount a disk in the wrong location for it's format. HTH, Troy >>> florin at iucha.net 10/10/01 11:55AM >>> >> They try (as root) mount -t vfat /dev/sdd4 /mnt/zip100.0 > ^^^^ >That looks odd to me (but I don't have a zip drive). > >1. Why is mapped as the fourth disk. (I know why sdd instead of hdd). Do you >really have three other SCSI devices? > >2. Why the fourth partition? Can zip disks be partitioned? Or is because some >funky compatibility issue?