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I followed both miknight and michaelk's suggests but neither the IDE-Floppy for SCSI methods seem to work. After my attemps, I looked at the new DMESG output and this it what I saw:
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:40.
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6
FAT: bogus logical sector size 10541
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:44.
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5 hdd6
I appears to me that there is some sort of problem with the disk and I only have one disk to test the drive with. How can I reformat the disk with a DOS format so it can be read by a Windows PC as well as Linux?
I tried fdisk /dev/hdd and the program seemed to recongnize that there was a 100MB disk. Since I don't know what I am doing with Linux's fdisk program, I didn't make any changes.
It seems to have instructions to fdisk and format the zip disk. The example uses the SCSI emulation but you should be able to replace any mention of /dev/sdd with /dev/hdd if you want to continue using the ide-floppy driver.
I've never tried this before though - hope it works for ya!
Thanks, miknight, for the link. It might come in handy in the future.
Before your responded to my question, I found the disk management tool in KDE. It has an option to format a floppy for Zip disk. I tried it out and everything seems to work fine now. I mount the drive as /dev/hdd. Can a zip disk be mounted as either IDE or SCSI? If so, is there any advantage to doing it one way or the other?
Andy
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Originally posted by miknight After a bit of Googling I found this page:
It seems to have instructions to fdisk and format the zip disk. The example uses the SCSI emulation but you should be able to replace any mention of /dev/sdd with /dev/hdd if you want to continue using the ide-floppy driver.
I've never tried this before though - hope it works for ya!
I wasn't aware that you could get a zip drive to work using SCSI emulation, but from what michaelk said it appears it's possible. My guess is that was the method used before there was an ide-floppy driver in the kernel.
Since Zip drives are one of the main targets of the ide-floppy driver, I'd suggest keeping it on that.
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