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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ZIP disks and kernel errors
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708010024.22542P-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35A02F74.308B1C84@kew.com>

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On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote:

> > Any reason you need an fdisk table?
> 
> The usual reasons for not creating a dangerously dedicated disk, in particular
> insuring that MS operating systems understand that the disk has a valid format
> even if they can't read it.  In addition, the quoted post by Justin Gibbs
> specifically took this method.  (See
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=321222+323525+/usr/local/www/db/text/1995/freebsd-questions/19950820.freebsd-questions).

Okay, I'll check that out, thanks!

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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