Re: Iomega Zip drive on IIGS

[hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

In article <4gm4pc$ebr@stork.qut.edu.au>, yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie
Yeo) wrote:

>         I recently acquired a Iomega Zip drive for my Macintosh. I also 
> bought a few extra 100Mb disks. I decided to share the Zip with the 
> Apple IIGS. Got some problems trying to use it.
> 
>         I have a Apple IIGS ROM 3 machine with 2Mb of RAM, and connected 
> the Iomega Zip with my Apple High Speed SCSI card on slot 4 (Your Card). 
> There's a ZipGSX 9/32 on slot 3 as well.
> 
>         I recall seeing someone being able to use the Iomega Zip on his 
> GS with lots of problems a couple of weeks ago (also the reason that 
> prompted me to get one myself !). I tried to partition with the Advanced 
> Disk Utilities on System 6.0.1 as well as the Apple II HS SCSI Card 
> Utilities Disk. None of them worked. I always come backs to GS/OS unable 
> to initialise the partitions when I attempted to install System 6.0.1.
> 
>         Any pointers on how am I to use the Iomega Zip with the Apple 
> IIGS ? I just wanted either 4 ProDOS partitions, or 1 ProDOS and 1 HFS 
> parition on the Iomega Zip.
> 
>         Any help is MUCH appreciated. If it works all well, I will 
> probably help write a FAQ for connecting and Iomega Zip to the Apple IIGS.

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.

The other problem with the Zip drive is that it powers down after a few
minutes of inactivity, and when it does this GS/OS loses it from its
device list. You have to eject the disk and remount it for GS/OS to find
it again. The SyQuest doesn't do this, so it's a little less frustrating
to use from that point of view. I'd still like an answer to the
partitioning problem, though.

Just fo interest's sake, my IIgs has an Apple HS SCSI card, a 127 Meg
Quatum HD with 2x32 ProDOS partitions, one 10 Meg ProDOS partition, and
the rest HFS.

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