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HELP! Windoze ZIP disks on a IIgs?
- Subject: HELP! Windoze ZIP disks on a IIgs?
- From: dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff)
- Date: 1999/09/18
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet
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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