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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 02:42:35 +0000 (GMT)
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Solved (Re: ZIP Drive. Help!)
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Thanks for all your help. I just installed Windows 95 on a spare
partition I had and formated it with the ZIP Tools.

Do *not* worry! I deleted the contents of the partition 30 minutes
after installing the damn thing. :-D

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt wrote:
> 
> > I used scsiformat to low-level format a parallel port ZIP drive
> 
> > and now I can't even fdisk the disk because it says it can't 
> > read the master partition table.
> 
> You don't necessarily need to fdisk.  For a FreeBSD-only disk, you
> should be able to just run `disklabel -Brw sdX auto'.  If at all, use
> `fdisk -i' (initialize).

It reported I/O error (can't read primary partition table) or
something like that.

And yes! My 2 1039MB disks are only used for FreeBSD. :-)

BTW, does anyone has a portuguese keymap file? I am tired of making
mistakes while I am typing. :-(

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  I deeply agree. ;-)

Thanks again.
Jorge Goncalvs