Re: iomega zip drive on GS

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4b30m3$fdn@ionews.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@io.org> wrote:
>I picked up the 100mb zip drive recently, and am using it on my GS with
>an original Apple rev.c SCSI card.  The drive works nicely as 3 32mb
>ProDOS partitions per 100mb disk.  Does anyone have any suggestions or
>recommendations about using this drive on their GS?  Are the most recent
>ROMs for the RamFAST able to prevent the system hanging problem after the
>drive has gone into sleep mode?
>In my opinion, it's an excellent buy... certainly slower than a hard
>drive.... but it's simplicity is top notch.  It would have been nice
>to select SCSI IDs other than only 5 or 6 though.
>I saw the Iomega Jaz 1.0GB drive advertised yesterday.  Wow!  If I had
>the $1150 (CDN$) to throw down for it, I wouldn't have passed it up.
> 

Try ejecting the disk manually and re-inserting it.  I don't have the 
Iomega yet, but plan on it.  I do have some 20 Meg removables that have 
the same problem, and ejection and re-insertion will usually fix it.

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