Fw: Zip drives

["redhat" <redhat lokrin net>]

update -

I accidentally left the linux disk in the drive when I went back to windows
and, lo and behold, windows can read it perfectly!  So, it seams that linux
will write a file that can be read by both linux and windows, but windows
writes a (corrupted?) file that can only be read by windows.  I wonder if
that is deliberate.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "redhat" <redhat lokrin net>
To: <shrike-list-request redhat com>
Sent: Saturday 29 November 2003 18:40
Subject: Zip drives


>
> ok, my two zip drives are auto detected and auto mounted  One is an
internal
> iomega 100zip and the other is an external USB iomega 100zip.  I had
thought
> that they were not working but I found out that they are, sort of...
>
> I booted up windows and copied a zip to my C: drive.  I then booted into
> Shrike and copied from the C: drive to the new (blank) zip disk.
Everything
> works fine.  I can read and write to the zip drive.
>
> So, why can I not read the windows formatted zip?  I've tried setting the
> media type to vfat, fat, fat16, fat32, msdos and auto.  I'd like to be
able
> to use the same disk for both windows and linux data.  Such as my website
> files (a couple of hundred pages plus misc supporting files) and some
image
> and sound files.
>
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