Re: Greetings and felicitations!

[yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo)]

Steve Quarrella (dfish@metronet.com) wrote:

: What I'm not certain about is whether or not you can boot from one.
: [Imoega Zip Drive]

	Yeah, I used my Zip as my startup drive ... can be painfully 
slower then the normal harddisk, painfully, but surely.

: I also saw in the FAQ some "required hardware," but I was curious as to 
: recommendations and maybe even some tricks or traps regarding my choice 
: of a SCSI controller. 

	It needs a termination power from the SCSI chain. Only RAMFast 
SCSI seems to have this. Modification had been done on the Apple High 
Speed SCSI to allow termination power supplying to a Zip drive.

	I haven't heard if you can use a CMS SCSI card or Apple SCSI Card 
to run the Zip drive before.

: If I'm not mistaken, NT's NTFS shouldn't have any problems with GS/OS 
: data/resource forks, as it handles the Mac's just fine

	What do you plan to use ? TCP/IP is out of the question, since 
GS/TCP with GNO/ME is still not released. And GS doesn't have IPX/SPX. You 
might be able to use AppleTalk, but printer drivers ?

	Regards.

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