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

On 15 Nov 1996 rubywand@aol.com wrote:

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>      Upon booting, as usual, from the Focus, System 6 found the disk in
> the Zip Drive and asked if it should format the disk. (Since the blank
> disks are formatted for PC, they are not readable by GS.)  It took about 9
> minutes to format 96MB for ProDOS. RamFAST's RAMFAST.SYSTEM has a utility
> for partitioning. It took a couple more minutes to set up three 32MB named
> ProDOS volumes.
> 
Here's an amazing time saver for formatting zip disks:

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.

Bob