Re: Zip drive as startup

[toh@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Marc Sira)]

>: The Zip drive theoretically will work as a boot drive, but since
>: you mention having an Apple HS SCSI you have a problem.
>: The Apple Card does not supply term power, nor does the Zip drive.

I'm late into this thread, but I should note that the Zip drive (at least,
the one I'm currently borrowing from a friend) *can* supply term power.
It just won't do it unless its internal termination is on. I can verify this
with the APS SCSI Doc attached to my Powerbook Duo (a fine, though expensive
hard drive for my GS :), which has a handy LED to indicate when term power
is applied.

Actually, all the devices in this chain - the Duo's SCSI Microdock, a La Cie
Joule dock, the Zip drive, and the RamFAST in my GS - are capable of supplying
term power. The Zip is just idiosyncratic (technically broken IMO) in that
it only does so when it's set to be internally terminated. Just move the Zip
drive to the end of the chain and switch on termination (or leave it where it
is and terminate it if you also have an active terminator somewhere else - I
do so _love_ active termination :) and you should be fine.

If someone has a Zip drive that never supplies term power, you might want
to contact IOmega...perhaps there were early ones that didn't.

Has anyone gotten the GS to read the preformatted MS-LOSS cartridges for the
Zip drive? PC Exchange on the Mac will recognise them, but the MS-DOS FST
seems not to. Is it more likely to be the FST or the partitioning scheme?

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