Re: IOmega ZIP and RAMFast

[micossi@vtsa04.ts.infn.it (Paolo Micossi)]

In article <4vv92b$hlr@news.vanderbilt.edu>, 
lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher) writes...
>RAMFast Probe
> 
>I do believe it's currently on the binaries newsgroup.
> 
>Tilghman
> 

Thanks for your suggestion, but....I tried it and it 
doesn't work for me.
What RAMFast Probe claims to do is mounting new SCSI devices.
In my case the IOmega ZIP is mounted _as a device_ since boot time.
(As you might know the ZIP has no switch, so I have plugged it in
the same multiple switched outlet where I have plugged the GS. That
means that when the GS is on, so is the ZIP)
The fact that the IOmega ZIP _is_ mounted as a device is proved
by the appearance of the eject/initialized dialog. For that
dialog to come up, GS/OS must have recognized there is a device
that needs its attention. What the OS doesn't recognize is the
media inside the device, and RAMFast Probe is no solution for that.
In fact I suspect the problems lies more with the RAMFast
driver and firmware than with GS/OS, since when I access the 
IOmega disk through the RAMFast utilities I find a few option
are reset. In fact all the ZIP partitions turn up marked as
not active,  and, no matter what I had set as lookahead,
it always reverts to 0k. If I recall it right, this does not
happen when restarting from the finder menu, but only after
the machine has been switched off.
BTW, my RAMFast ROM identifies as 3.00l.

	Thanks for your help		Paolo Micossi