On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if > you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition. > What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted > for. Windows was partition 4, Linux was partition 1, and I don't > remember what MAC used. (It might not have used a DOS-type partition > table.) Pre-formatted Mac Zip discs had the Mac filing system on them. But I rarely saw them on sale, so users probably bought Windows preformatted ones, and went with it, or reformatted them. I imagine using partition 4 was so that it wasn't a primary partition, and would get a drive letter after your existing primary partitions, so not to shuffle important drive letters about. Gawd, but I'm so glad I don't have to deal with that crap ever again, though Linux's drive renumbering is almost as bad. At least it's only a one-time set-up problem, not an ongoing problem - once mounted on the tree, applications don't care what the drive actually is. Compared to Windows, where it can be a right pain to have to deal with a drive being E today, F tomorrow, E later on... > > I also remember removable platter SCSI drives that pre-dated ZIP > drives, but I can not remember what they were called. The didn't have > nearly as much capacity, and the cartridges were larger. I think I > still have a couple in storage somewhere... And do you still have punch cards being used as bookmarks? ;-) I found a few more of mine earlier this year. Haven't managed to find a pristine one, though. Hmm, maybe I should get some calling cards made up that have that design to them. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
