Re: Zip Drive Question

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Marvin Miller writes ...
: > 
: > Hi;
: > 
: > Will a //GS read a Zip disk formatted MS-Dos?
: > 
:  ....

:      Yes. With System 6.0.1 (including the MS-DOS FST) installed, you can use
: Peter Watson's MUG! New Desk Accessory (NDA) to Read from and Write to MS_DOS
: Zip disks.

:      Since the System Finder seems to usually refuse to mount the MS-DOS Zip
: disk, there is a bit of of trick involved. What you need to do is start a
: IIgs application which allows access to NDA's-- i.e. lets you click the Apple
: Menu symbol on the menu bar-- and allows inserting your MS-DOS Zip disk.
: (Many applics leave the System disk niceness watchdog in place and will not
: permit inserting the disk.)  Two applications that work are PMPunZIP and
: Platinum Paint. 

(...)

Okay, so do the Experts know why I can stick my (one) MS-DOS format ZIP
disk into the drive, and GS/OS *doesn't* complain?

I do get the "infinite polling" when I'm in a file picker and the ZIP
drive is empty, but when I stick my MS-DOS format ZIP into the drive,
nothing happens.  I get the sound from the finder that says I just mounted
a disk, but the disk does not mount...but as well, the Finder doesn't
complain about it, either.

One thing that might be important:  The disk in question was purchased as
a preformatted Macintosh ZIP disk, but was reformatted for MS-DOS...in
fact, I think I used MUG! to do the reformat.  

This particular disk has all my web site files on it, because I work on
the web site using a Win'9x PC, a Macintosh G3, and my IIgs...and the
MS-DOS format ZIP disk is the only disk format all three machines have in
common!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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