On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 15:28 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "Robert Nichols" <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 16:37 > > > > Mikkel wrote: > >> On 12/21/2009 03:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > >>> Mikkel wrote: > >>>> Under Linux, you can do both. While you will be asked if that is > >>>> what you really want to do, the tools are happy to let you. Mount > >>>> has no problems mounting /dev/sda if you have formatted /dev/sda. > >>>> (Apposed to formatting /dev/sda1). Windows may not like it, but that > >>>> is another story. > >>> Putting a filesystem on the entire, unpartitioned device is referred > >>> to as "super floppy" or "superfloppy" format. It's been around, and > >>> supported, since the days of ZIP disks. > >>> > >> 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.) > > > > Probably true. When I was looking for references to "super floppy" > > format (formatting a larger drive in the manner of a floppy disk, > > i.e. without partitioning) that came up as the time that term became > > widely used. Heck, I'm surprised I even recalled the name. > > Bleah - on the Amiga we were formatting them ourselves for real > operating systems. We even had a tool for low level formatting the > drives - any SCSI drive, actually. > > {^_-} > [OT} Just today I was ruminating about what ever happened to jdow. And suddenly she appears. -- ======================================================================= "Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines