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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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