update - I accidentally left the linux disk in the drive when I went back to windows and, lo and behold, windows can read it perfectly! So, it seams that linux will write a file that can be read by both linux and windows, but windows writes a (corrupted?) file that can only be read by windows. I wonder if that is deliberate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "redhat" <redhat@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday 29 November 2003 18:40 Subject: Zip drives > > ok, my two zip drives are auto detected and auto mounted One is an internal > iomega 100zip and the other is an external USB iomega 100zip. I had thought > that they were not working but I found out that they are, sort of... > > I booted up windows and copied a zip to my C: drive. I then booted into > Shrike and copied from the C: drive to the new (blank) zip disk. Everything > works fine. I can read and write to the zip drive. > > So, why can I not read the windows formatted zip? I've tried setting the > media type to vfat, fat, fat16, fat32, msdos and auto. I'd like to be able > to use the same disk for both windows and linux data. Such as my website > files (a couple of hundred pages plus misc supporting files) and some image > and sound files. > > - - - - - > I want to have three cats named Fred: > > Deep Fred > French Fred > Stir Fred > > Lokrin (TechAss) > Technical Assailant > http://lokrin.net > - - - - > > > > --- > Outgoing male is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 03/11/21 > --- Outgoing male is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 03/11/21 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
