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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI zip drive experiences?
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:35:20 UTC
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brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:

>In article <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com>,
>	nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>: If you want to make unix zip disks, puting this in the disktab
>: will help:
>: 
>: zip:\
>:	:ty=removable:se#512:nc#96:nt#64:ns#32:\
>:	:pa#196608:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\
>:	:pb#196608:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\
>:	:pc#196608:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512:

>Eek !  You've got your a and b partitions on the same space !  Bad news.

Only if you tried to use them both at the same time. The floppy
definitions do the same thing.

>I'd suggest removing the pb line !  Also, you shouldn't need bc & fc.
>Making these changes may even remove some warnings :)

Nope. The warnings are mode sense conditions because sd doesn't
expect the media to change on the fly.

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