Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

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

In <334BC496.44E1@jpj.net> Scalar writes:

> Randy Shackelford wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> yes, it can be partitioned. On a Mac, I used FWB's disk formatter to
> make about
> seven partitions on a Zip, and install FWB's driver in place of the
> normal Zip
> driver. this worked great, and the FWB driver ejects it properly, too.

Well, I'm trying to partition it so I can format it for ProDOS and use it with
my BBS that I run off of a IIgs.
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Captain Harlock
harlock@ttu.edu