Re: Zip disk on SCSI

[Louis Cornelio <cornelio@crl2.crl.com>]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

: In article <6fkdqt$9um$1@nnrp1.crl.com>,
: Louis Cornelio  <cornelio@crl5.crl.com> wrote:
: >Can anyone tell me how to best set-up a zip dreive disk to use w/ an 
: >apple scsi card? I have use of both of these & want to try it out; so fra 
: >it seems a little flakey.

:    Get a non-Apple SCSI card or modify the Apple one to provide
: termination power to the drive, as it expects. Alternatively, you can
: try and place a HD in the chain that provides the termination power,
: but that can be a hit-or-miss proposition.

The iomega zip drive is set to SCSI ID5 with the termination switch on.
I am lucky to have any SCSI card! :) How exactly would the apple hi-speed 
need to be "modified"?


: >Help is appreciated; my guess is i first must format that zip disk: how 
: >best to do so? 

:    Advanced Disk Utils on the GS System 6 System Tools disks is a good
: choice if you have an Apple scsi card.

the system tools will NOT particion the Zip drive.  Neither will the HD 
setup tools on the mac, or the iomega tools that come w/ the drive.
So I guess that means zip disks can NOT be partioned -- anyone know 
otherwise?

MEanwhile the oddity of getting 2 "not recognized" msgs is solved -- the 
GS seems to read the zip drive w/ 2 tiny "partions" built in of 5k and 200k,
so I initialized those & now they show up. But I wish there was a way to 
chencge their size to something useful!


: >oh, how best to set-up slots?
: >Do I have to give up either modem or printer to set to "your card"?
: >slot 3 hold holds zip-gs accelerator, slot 7 has focus card.

:    SCSI and all other disk interface cards must be 'your
: card'ed. Accelerators do not need that.

Actually I meant the physical set-up. Withe the SCSI card in slot 2 & 
that set to your card, I didn't think the modem would still work, but it 
does. Th weird thing is I thought I'd have to sacrifice either printer or 
modem, so I had previously set slot one to modem & connected the modem 
there rather than my IW. The modem wouldn't work.

OK, point is if anyonehas successfully partioned an iomega zip drive I 
would like to know how.

thanks again!
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