Re: the new zip geometry is biting me
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
31 May 1999 22:45:43 GMT
Followup to: <37526A8E.346E890F@stud.uni-saarland.de>
By author: Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There should be a jumper on the back of your new ATAPI drive.
> Remove the jumper and the problems should be gone.
> OR:
> access the device as "/dev/hdb" instead of "/dev/hdb1".
>
> What's happening:
> - The device is jumpered as "ATAPI FLOPPY".
> - Windows 95 & Windows NT do not expect a partition sector
> on such devices.
> - Iomega has implemented a hardware solution:
> skip the first 32 sectors if the device is jumpered as
> ATAPI FLOPPY.
> - The Iomega formatter creates always a 32 sector partitions
> table.
>
Of course, the whole reason they have these problems in the first
place was because they put a partition table on these devices... bad
move.
-hpa
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