[Coco] IDE internal 100mb ZIP drives
    Roger Merchberger 
    zmerch at 30below.com
       
    Sat Feb 26 09:20:06 EST 2005
    
    
  
Rumor has it that Willard Goosey may have mentioned these words:
>I believe that ZIP disks have a partition table, like a hard drive,
>rather than a simple boot/noboot sector 1 like a DOS disk floppy.
>Also, I don't know which DOS filesystem (FAT12 or FAT16) would be used
>on a 100MB ZIP disk, as compared to a 720K floppy.
FAT12 had a 32Meg limit -- I'm quite sure it's FAT16 (as standard) but of 
course, can be formatted for anything... I _think_ you could make 3 FAT12 
partitions, but that would be a bit counterproductive. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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