Re: Formatting a zip disk [Was:On over-fixing a problem-- Iomega Zip]

[rubywand@aol.com]

In article <Pine.SGI.3.95.961116005125.3746B-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>,
Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu> writes:

>
>Before booting, insert the zip disk into the drive;  boot into RamFAST
[by
>holding down the zero key while booting].
>
>Using the RamFAST menu, delete all the partitions of the zip disk, then
>add 3 partitions, sizing them to the 32768 maximum or whatever you want.
>
>Quit.  Answer yes to the prompts.  Your disk will be formatted correctly
>in less than 30 seconds.
>
>

    _Very_ nice to know! So, the "IBM" part of "Formatted for IBM ..." on
the disk case is, largely, beside the point. The disk is formatted and all
a GS user needs to do is set up the partitions.

     Once you get to the RamFAST Utils-- click "U" on menu bar of the 1st
RamFAST/SCSI Utilities screen-- you can pop in a disk, set the partitions,
and do one disk after another just by clicking Partition. Exiting back to
the 1st screen, you can set and save Options to each disk. The partitions
can be renamed later from the Finder.

     30 seconds sure beats 9 minutes-- thanks for the hint!  (Of course,
now, that the extra 100MB chunks are easier to access, the Storage Problem
is even more over-fixed.) 

Rubywand