RE: [TCLUG:733] IOmega Zip Drives

[Hans Umhoefer <spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Hmm, that's odd. I've never had any trouble fdisking my ppa zip drive. In 
fact I believe you have to to reformat it from Linux. The way I format my 
disks in Linux is to fdisk them (they come with several partitions on 
them, don't ask me why) and make one Linux native partition, then I run 
mke2fs /dev/sda4. 

Hans

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ben Kochie wrote:

> there are several problems with the PPA zip drives, mostly because of the
> simple way the parport->SCSI converter works (inside the zip drive)
> 
> if i remember correctly, you can not fdisk a PPA zip drive, but you can fdisk a
> scsi zip drive.
> this leaves the problem that you can't change the fs type argument in the zip
> partition table... 
> there may be ways to partiton, and format, using the iomega utils, but they
> have not been reverse engineered.. (iomega provided no support to the linux
> people)