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HELP! Windoze ZIP disks on a IIgs?



Okay, so I have this ZIP drive hooked up to my trusty IIgs.  I've got a
ProDOS formatted ZIP disk, and it mounts and functions beautifully.  I'm
using GS/OS 6.0.1.  So I know the Zip drive is working.

I also have the MS-DOS FST installed.

So I have this ZIP disk that was Macintosh formatted when it came from
Iomega.  Since I was using it on a Windows '95-OSR-2 machine, I used the
Windows machine to format the disk for Windows, presumably using FAT. 
This is, of course, because Windows '95 cannot recognize anything that
isn't FAT-16 or FAT-32.

The Windoze box in question does have FAT-32 installed, and has hard
drives formatted with both FAT-16 and FAT-32.  No option was given when
the Zip disk was formatted; I am assuming that it is formatted with FAT-16.

When I took the Zip disk home and stuck it into the Zip drive on my IIgs,
I got the usual sound indicating that a disk is mounting, and
then...nothing.  No new icon on the desktop, no warning message, no
error...nothing at all.  Neither Finder nor File-A-Trix sees the Zip disk
(presumably \PIC) in the drive.

Okay, gurus, what am I forgetting?  I do have the MS-DOS FST installed,
and it is not checked as 'inactive'.  I have never before attempted to use
it, however.  Oh, and I am using...at any rate I think I am
using...Richard Bennett's Floptical SCSI driver, a move which dramatically
improved my system stability after I installed the Zip drive.

Tips?  Comments?  I was hoping to upload some stuff from this Zip disk
tonight...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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