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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:19:55 -0400
From: Stephen Couchman <Stephen.Couchman@iwds.com>
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(Note: I am resending this note, since I am having problems with my other mail account.  Any
and all help would be most appreciated.)


I have just purchased a Jaz drive, and after reviewing the questions in
the archive, I have a couple of my own:

1. How do I go about formatting the disk to be used as a Unix partition?  I want to mount it
so that I can backup my data to it.

2. Is there a resolution  to the 'sleep' issue?  If I access the drive after it has powered
down, it causes a 'panic'.  Would placing a simple 'ls' to /dev/null in cron work around the
problem, or do I need to mount and unmount the drive?

Are there any other issues that I should be looking out for?

Thanks -- Stephen

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