Re: Zip Drive & 2GS

[hmag@ozemail.com.au (Terry Allen)]

In article <1998090621370900.RAA17267@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> ljsilicon@aol.com (LJSILICON) wrote:
> 
> >I've been using a ZIP for about a year with my GS and have found no solution.
> I
> >have it hooked to a RAMFast SCSI and all I do is eject and reinsert to
> >reactivate it.
> 
> The Apple High Speed SCSI card has many advantages to the RamFAST.
> It provides an SCSI ID, for one thing, so it will work with all SCSI/SCSI2
> hard drives unlike the RamFAST.  The Apple card will also automatically
> leave additional time to reactivate a spun down Zip drive with the Tulin
> driver.  The RamFAST card also has another problem...when accessing a
> multipartition CD-ROM like the Golden Orchard, you have to go into the
> RamFAST utilities and manually mount each volume, presumably because
> the card can only see 12 volumes at a time and the Golden Orchard
> overloads it.  The Apple card has no such problems.  Something to
> think about for those considering swapping an Apple card for an, in
> many respects, worse RamFAST model.  ;-)

I've only recently hooked up my Zip to the RamFAST (REV C). I have found no
problem with the drive spinning down. If it has spun down, I have found
that any request for disk activity (i.e. opening a folder) makes the drive
spin up again.

I also seem to remember that using the Zip utilities on the Mac (maybe PC
users can reply to this thread about PC equivalents), you can specify the
sleep time on the Zip, which programs the drive firmware apparently.
Perhaps extending the spin-down time may be the answer.

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