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Re: [TCLUG:733] IOmega Zip Drives



do a 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/(whatever your zip is)'
make sure it's not mounted.

serge



Clark Whiting wrote:

> Hmmm. I haven't tried to fdisk the zip disk yet. But I don't think
> that's the problem. How do you do a low-level format on a zip disk?
> Does the Linux fdisk perform a low level format -- I didn't think
> it did. My NTFS disk is totally unusable until a low level format is
> done -- or am I missing something here?
>
> >
> >How do you format a zipdisk under Linux?
> >
>
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