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In article <3C42D68E.415B415@ijs.si>,
Miha Andrejasic  <miha.andrejasic@ijs.si> wrote:

| I have a question:
| How would I format ZIP disk (Iomega 100MB) on my internal unit using
| Linux (this means which format and a command to use, please) that this
| disk will work on SGI external ZIP unit.
| 
| I need this disk to transfer files to SGI.
| I use Pentium 200MMX with RedHat 6.1.
| SGI sistem is IRIX 4.0.5.

The part you didn't supply is what format the SGI will read, which you
need to know before creating the media.

To create a DOS format you need to do the following:
1 - check the format with fdisk, as "fdisk /dev/sda". The entire disk
should be in the 4th primary partition, ex. sda4. If it's not, delete
all partitions and create just primary partition 4.

2 - be sure the partition type is DOS type (still with fdisk). I don't
have a standard disk handy, but I believe they're type 4 (16 bit FAT).

3 - format the partition, "mkdosfs /dev/sda4" or similar.

4 - mount the partition, and copy your data to it.

Other:
- steps 3 and 4 might also be done with MFORMAT and MCOPY from the
  dosutils package.
- If you were going to Windows you would do all this as vfat and get
  long filenames.
- You can always use the disk as a raw device for file transfer, just
  tar up the files you want and write to the whole disk (sda, not sda1).
  You might have to fall back on that.

Provide more info on what the non-Linux machine can read!

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