Subject: Re: Zip disk ?
From: Rob Brandt (rbrandt@sbdsl.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 10:35:24 MDT
Yes, I've tried disks formatted with MacOS and ziptools, so I don't
think that's the problem.
Rob
>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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