[ale] Zip drive wierdness - Part Deux

[rstickel at mindspring.com (Robert Stickel)]

Thanks to all who replied.  Several folks mentioned the fact that Zip
disks come
with a filesystem on partition 4.  That can be changed with fdisk and we
have
disks floating around here with ext2 and various MS filesystems on
partitions
1 and 4.  One kind soul even formatted a bunch like floppies - no
partition
table at all.

Anyway that's not the problem.  I'd still like to find out what happened
but
rebooting with a good disk in the drive fixed it.  Not just rebooting -
we did
that several times while swapping cables.  Something about having that
good
disk in there (???).

Am I hallucinating?


--bs


Robert Stickel
rstickel at mindspring.com
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