Re: Zip Drive-- How to hook up a SCSI Zip to the GS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Supertimer writes ...
> 
>> Just to add one comment on this great article, the Apple High Speed
>> SCSI interface also allows ejecting removable disks.  With a partitioned
>> Zip disk (or CD-ROM), you have to lasso or shift-click to hilight all the
>> partitions and drag them to the trash to eject the disk.  As long as one
>> partition remains on the desktop, the disk stays in.  There is no need
>> to turn off the computer to swap disks.
>
>
>     Thanks for the info. It will be added to the Csa2 FAQs.

Great!  Despite what others say, there is a great deal of knowledge
being passed around on csa2 and I am glad you have taken the time
and effort to preserve it.  The Csa2 FAQs on Ground are great!

>     With the Apple High Speed SCSI interface, does the successful eject
>of a Zip disk and recognition of a newly inserted Zip disk work only
>when all partitions of the to-be-ejected disk are Trash-ed at once? That
>is, what happens if you move one partition to Trash; and, then, lasso &
>move the remaining partitions to Trash? Does the Zip disk eject okay?

Yup.  I just tried it on the GS to verify it.  Stuck in a two partition disk
and dragged one of the partitions to the trash. That partition's icon was
removed from the desktop, but the disk remained in the drive. Dragged
the second partition to the trash and the Zip disk was ejected.  (The
disk had two partitions because the second one was HFS.)

>Are you able to insert a different Zip disk and have it recognized?

Yup.  After ejecting the first Zip disk as described above, I stuck in
a second Zip disk, this one entirely formatted as a single HFS
volume.  Its icon popped up on Finder.  (Mac formatted HFS Zips
have an annoying driver partition, but using GenEx with ADU, the
Zip can be reformatted as a cross platform HFS disk that does not
make Finder gag on Mac driver stuff.)

The one thing I discovered that may be of interest is that on the Zip
disk with two partitions, after I ejected the first partition and then
MANUALLY ejected the disk with the Zip drive's eject button, the
icon of the second partition was not dimmed.  If I then stick in a
different Zip disk, Finder wakes and dims the icon of the second
partition of the previous disk.  I don't think Finder keeps polling the
Zip drive like it does floppy drives.