From: Joshua Jore <moomonk@rogue.electricgod.net>
To: Gregoire Favre <greg@ulima.unil.ch>
Cc: Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@titan.lahn.de>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Zip: what does that mean?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:33:46 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106151532260.10605-100000@rogue.electricgod.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010615221557.A8085@ulima.unil.ch>
Greg,
Just to make a point on that, as I recall Zip and other super floppy media
*shouldn't* be partitioned. It's certainly possible to do but it's
anyone's guess on how different OS+revs will treat it.
Josh
__SIG__
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
>
> > Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known
> > partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this.
> >
> > When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive.
> > Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read
> > and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical
> > 100MB zip media.
>
> Thanks for your answer, in fact, there was a media in my zip, but
> without any partition (as I don't see any other reason than avoiding
> those errors messages to make just one partition on my disk).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
> ________________________________________________________________
> http://ulima.unil.ch/greg ICQ:16624071 mailto:greg@ulima.unil.ch
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-15 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-14 8:43 Zip: what does that mean? Gregoire Favre
2001-06-15 6:40 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2001-06-15 20:15 ` Gregoire Favre
2001-06-15 20:33 ` Joshua Jore [this message]
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