UPDATE: Apple IIgs / Iomega Zip Drive Problems

["Douglas E. Morris" <dmorris@doors.dnsalias.com>]

Ok,

I figgured out that the Apple SCSI Card needed to be in slot 7.  Now I can
see the Zip Drive, and it knows it is an MS-DOS based disk and offers to
Initialize it for me.  I tell it no and go to the Apple IIgs Advanced Disk
Utility.  From there I am supposed to use the partition command but that
does not seem to be available to me.  I get my choice of INFO, INITIALIZE,
and ZERO.


Info give me info about the disk and it gets all the info it shows me
correct.


Initialize takes me out to
00/03CD: 00 00                    BRK 00
A=C7CD X=000B Y=00F0 S=01D8 D=0000 P=B0 B=00 K=00 M=08 Q=36 L=0 m=1 x=1 e=1

I get this same error weather I try to initialize from the Finder when I
first start up, or if I try to do it from the Apple IIgs Advanced Disk
Utility.


Zero just runs the disk on and on and on and on and on...  I stopped it
after an hour.  Perhaps I should wair longer, not sure.


Any more help would be appreciated.

Doug
"Douglas E. Morris" <dmorris@doors.dnsalias.com> wrote in message
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> Ok,
>
> I have gotten the Apple IIgs up and running, and i have System 6.0.1 on
> floppy disks.  I boot up with Disk #2 and then go to the system tools disk
> to get to the Apple IIgs Advanced Disk Utility.  Here is where the problem
> is.  The Zip Drive is not seen at all.
>
> I have termination set to on, and have tried both ID 5 and 6.  I have
tried
> multiple reboots, and have even made sure that the Zip drive was powered
on
> at least 5 mins and had a disk in the drive before I turned on the Apple
> IIgs.
>
> The only thing I can think of now is that perhaps it can not deal with the
> zip disk I want to use because it has an IBM format on it.  I want to
erase
> this disk and use it for just Apple IIgs.  Do I need to get this disk
> formatted before the Apple IIgs can see it?  Or am I missing something
else
> here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Doug
>
> p.s. I am using an actual Apple SCSI card, and I do NOT think it is the HS
> version.
>
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