From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 02:17:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03993 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03748 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01133; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:01:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Drew Derbyshire cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP disks and kernel errors In-Reply-To: <35A02F74.308B1C84@kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message