Re: Reading a PRODOS ZIP disk with a Mac

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obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>>If you were using a IIGS with a Zip disk, you'll want to format the Zip
>>disk as one large HFS volume, thus no empty space.
>>
>>If you are using it with a IIe, then you'll want to partition the Zip disk
>>into three 32MB partitions.  Again, no empty space.
>>
>>Then again, the empty space should not matter.
>
>So, how do you partition a Zip Disk?

I assume you mean to ask how to partition one on a IIe (on the IIGS,
you would not WANT to, but you could do so with Advanced Disk
Utilities).  Well, the Apple High Speed SCSI card came with a
ProDOS 8 based hard drive formatting and partitioning utility.  You
can use that to partition your Zip disk.  You can also use any of a
number of utilities available on ground.  I believe the Chinook
SCSI utilities will also work.  If you have a RamFAST on your IIe,
you can use the built in ROM utilities to partition the Zip disk.