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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip / MS-DOS
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:54:39 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Jim Pritchett (jdp@caleb.UUCP) wrote:
-
- : Has anyone figured out how to put an MS-DOS partition on a Zip disk
- : using the CrossDos that comes with OS 3.1?
-
- Someone posted mountlists for reading PC and Mac Zip disks, but I
- couldn't get the PC one to work. (The geometry he used was the
- default one set by HDToolBox -- which is *bad*. It does not use all
- the sectors on the disk.) The Mac geometry works (sort of), because
- the Mac puts its directory at sector 0 (i.e., the geometry is
- irrelevant, as long as the number of sectors equals 196608). The Mac
- geometry he posted will only work if the Mac Zip disk is not >99%
- full, since the HDToolBox geometry does not map all 196608 sectors
- that the Mac uses.
-
- In order for the PC disks to work, we need to know what geometry the
- PC uses -- anyone know?
-
- Tom Kennedy
-