Re: Zip disk ?


Subject: Re: Zip disk ?
From: Joss Winn (joss@josswinn.org)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 09:16:51 MDT


On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:55:17AM -0000, yellowdog-general-digest-help@lists.yellowdoglinux.com wrote:
> > > My fstab is entered as below, just like suggested. The zip disks I am
> > > trying to mount are newly formatted and readable by a Mac.
> > >
> > > /dev/sda /mnt/zip hfs rw,noauto,user 0 0
> > >
> > > However, if I change "hfs" to "auto" I can mount and read DOS formatted
> > zip
> > > disks. Mac formatted doesn't work.
> > >
> > > How do I fix this?

just to make sure, you are using HFS disks and not HFS+ disks,
right? They may be readable by a Mac but linux only reads HFS. If
they are HFS+, that is the source of your problems and you need to
reformat them with the zip tools in your Macintosh.

just a thought

joss

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