Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:56:02 -0700 (MST) From: vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mformat zip Message-ID: <XFMail.990701205602.vagner@vagner.com>
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I formatted a zip disk using mformat and noticed
that it made partition 1 the active partition
and the other disk i formatted using win 98
and zip tools and it made partition 4 active.
I have 2 zip drives on this system.
If i remember correctly, slice4 is supposed to
be the active partition.
mutsgo# fdisk da1
******* Working on device /dev/rda1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 0, size 196608 (96 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 95/ sector 32/ head 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
mutsgo#
mutsgo# fdisk da2
******* Working on device /dev/rda2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 32, size 196576 (95 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 95/ sector 32/ head 63
mutsgo#
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Date: 01-Jul-99
Time: 19:45:32
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