Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

[Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu (Captain Harlock)]

In <5j41ga$p5t@dove.qut.edu.au> yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au writes:

> Captain Harlock (Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu) wrote:
> 
> : Is it possible to partition a Zip disk the way we can do hard drives? 
> : I've tried (using a Zip drive hooked up to an Apple IIgs with 
> : High-Speed SCSI card and a HFS-formatted 100 meg Zip disk) but the 
> : Advanced Disk Utility keeps telling me the disk could not be 
> : partitioned.
> 
> 	Funny... I do not have a problem on my Zip disk with the Apple 
> High Speed SCSI card, and System 6.01 ADU on a ROM 3 GS.
> 
> 	But, I am aware that I had the same problem with yours due to the 
> Apple HS SCSI card not supplying termination power. Someone done a fix on 
> my Apple HS SCSI card to supply termination power and it works fine since. 
> I have done 4 ProDOS partitions before, as well as 1 ProDOS and 1 HFS.

Well, I've got the chain terminated by a hard drive that does provide the
termination power, so I don't know if it's that. I'm going to start getting the
IBM Zip disks like everyone is suggesting and see how that works.
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