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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
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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. ;-)