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Re: New hardware advice please...

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From: Lars Michael
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00
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A S Measures (alastair@camel.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> >4. Internal IDE (ATAPI) Zip Drive
> Yes - works fine though use fdisk to check the partitions
> as the MSDOS one seems to appear as partition 4 !

I've also seen partition 1 being used.  Here's what I came
up with (sda for SCSI,  replace with hda for IDE):

    #!/bin/sh

    # Usage: zipmount

    for i in 1 2 3 4 
    do
        /sbin/mount /dev/sda$i /zip
    done

Regards,
                                                       Larry
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Lars "Larry" Michael                      larry@citilink.com
87GT                          http://www.citilink.com/~larry
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From: larry@citilink.com (Lars Michael)
Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/21
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