Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

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

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.

	Don't ask me how it was done, I can't remember, I din't do it, I 
gave it to a technician who knows Apple stuff and he soldered a couple of 
wires, a diode from an IC to one of the pins on the SCSI. And that was 
done while I was on vacation 2,000km AWAY !!!!

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