Re: Iomega Zip drive on IIGS

[Fisherman@experience.ecore.fnet.org (Fisherman)]

In Article <hinchlif-2602960855160001@csumac1.murdoch.edu.au>,
<hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:

>I had no trouble getting a Zip Drive to work on my IIgs, but like you I
>could not partition the drive. I had to keep it as an HFS volume, or I
>could format it as ProDOS, but with one 32 Meg partition. The Mac would
>not recognise the ProDOS partition. It's worth pointing out that I have
>had exactly the same problems trying to format and partition a SyQuest
>135EZ, so I don't think the problem is necessarily specific to the Iomega
>drive.

I have the SyQuest EZ135 and have had no problems partitioning it. I have the
Apple HS scsi card and used the utils from 6.01 to format the disks. Thoses
disks came to me with the ability to be used on a Mac OR msdos machine. I did
a low level format on one cart and then created my partitions as usual. On the
other cart, I just intialized it. There were some small partitions on it which
I first deleted and then partitioned as usual. The disks contain 4 prodos
partions each now. I use the drive as a boot device on my other GS and it
works just fine!

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