Re: [MiNT] Reading Atari formatted iomegaZIP discs under linux

["Roger Burrows" <rfburrows@ymail.com>]

On 22 Mar 2014 at 21:45, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> 
> Now, many years later, I would like to read out some of these zip media
> contents... I found a Zip drive on a fleemarket for like 5 euros, but couldn't
> get that to work either. Then I found another newer one that I can get to work
> on my PC via USB, but it doesn't detect any of my disks. It does work with DOS
> formatted disks though, so I wonder what goes on. The openSUSE kernel comes
> with atari filesystem support, and my disks use VFAT or ext2. So my next guess
> is that my problem is about endianness, but have no idea how to verify or even
> resolve that.
> 
Could it be a capacity incompatibility?  What capacity of ZIP disks do you 
have?  And what model of ZIP drive?

Also, for clarification: the disks you are trying to read are either VFAT or 
ext2?  Were they created under MiNT?

Roger