Re: Iomega Zip drive on IIGS

[yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo)]

Peter Hinchliffe (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.

	Is there no other way to partition (on Apple HS SCSI) more than 
one partition ? (i.e. 1x32Mb ProDOS + 1x68Mb HFS)

	Just thought of something too (just when writing this !). Wonder 
if there is a possibility to partition the Iomega Zip drive first on the 
Macintosh before putting on the GS ?

: 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.

	Yeah, I have noticed the Iomega Zip goes to sleep. Can be a bit 
frustrating when you only pull data out of the drive once in a while. 
i.e. working on Word Processing on AppleWorks GS.

: 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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