Re: Pinger INIT for Zip drives

[at217@chebucto.ns.ca (Michael Hackett)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
> SCSI Zip Drives have a problem
> when used on a GS.  They "fall asleep" after twenty minutes
> or so.  The GS then thinks that something is wrong and the
> "eject or format" dialog box pops up or, even worse, programs
> may give errors.

Is this with an external? And with which SCSI card? I've never had
that problem with my AHS/Zip (internal), and I've never heard
anyone with an external ever mention it.

Sounds like a perfectly feasible program, though. Just use a
Heartbeat Manager (or whatever the replacement was called) task
that fires every five or ten minutes and sends some simple
query command to the drive. I'm afraid I can't offer to do it
right now, nor would I be able to test it if I did, since I've
never seen the problem described.