Re: Zip Plus & Apple IIGS

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <358FE2E2.38D0@popalex1.linknet.net>,
Steve Sanders  <robsan19@popalex1.linknet.net> wrote:
>I am thinking of buying an Iomega Zip Plus removeable disk drive to use
>with my Apple IIGS. I currently have a RamFast SCSI, ROM Rev 3.01e
>connected to a 40 meg Q-Drive.

>	Is the Zip Plus compatible with this version of RamFast, or will I need
>to upgrade the RamFast?

   That's the next to the last rev of the RamFAST ROM, and it's
reported to work fine. 3.01f works great for me at home; 3.00j
occasionally only saw 2/3 of the partitions on my disks.

>	If I need to upgrade the RamFast, who or where has the upgrade?

   Sequential Systems sells RamFASTs these days, along with upgrades.
As noted in section 10.2 of the official csa2 Freqently Asked Questions
(FAQ) at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html

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   Sequential Systems (http://www.sequential.com/ 800-759-4549 or
   303-666-4549, 800-999-1717 tech, 303-666-7797 BBS) has many products,
   including GS software that reads some (but not all) multimedia
   CD-ROMs, VGA display, Memory, SCSI, and other boards for Apple IIs.
   Contact inquiries@sequential.com.
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>	Any special procedures to format the Zip disks? I assume I can use the
>RamFast utilities to partition them to four partitions.

   All disks come preformatted; just partition them up.

Nathan Mates
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