Re: Zip Drive & IIgs

[Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com>]

Steve Sanders wrote:
> 

Hmmmm,
I'd check to be sure you've got the Zip terminated (any other devices on
the chain?). It SHOULD work well (mine does) from the Ramfast.  I have
all my GS partitions set to this size so I can do a volume
backup/restore from my Zip disks.
> Finally got around to hooking the Zip drive to my trusty Apple IIgs. The
> IIgs is a Woz ROM 1, with RamFast SCSI, Rev C and Rom version 3.01e.
> 
> When I fire up the computer, I automatically enter the RamFast
> Utilities, and it identifies the zip drive. My problem arises when I try
> to partition the zip disk. I tried to get three partitions of 32.768k
> each. When I select partition, I get the warning that this will erase
> everything on the drive, I selsect OK, then get the following message:
> 
> RamFast MLI Error
> Command: 04-03 85 00 60 05 00 00 00 00
> Status: 27
> 
> After reading a few other posts, I understand that the Staus 27 is an
> I/O error, but why didn't the disk partition? Do I need to format it
> first with RamFast? I was told before that all I needed to do was just
> partition the IBM formated disks.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Steve