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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI zip drive experiences? Date: 1 Nov 1996 22:58:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <55dvbd$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <54t3of$bqd@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> <3272B1DD.33F8@onthenet.com.au> <550h8h$eus@uriah.heep.sax.de> <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com> <557g9d$r5@anorak.coverform.lan> <nDyPYY3@quack.kfu.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote: > >: :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. Floppies don't actually use partitions at all. You will probably notice that /dev/rfd0a through /dev/rfd0h are all the same, while the devices with varying minor numbers represent different density values. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)