Zip Technology Hard Card - HELP!

[Peter Hinchliffe <hinchlif@numbat>]

A colleague bought a "Hard Card" from Zip Technology for his Appe IIe a 
couple of years ago. It's quite a nice little device - a 2.5" Connor 20 
Meg hard drive mounted on a card which plugs into any slot. The drive 
has recently suffered a head crash. He has been able to replace the 
drive itself with an identical second hand unit which he bought from a 
local 2nd hand computer dealer (not bad value at $40!). His big problem 
now is that he can't format it.

Does anyone out there know anything about these cards from Zip Tchnology? 
Did they use the SCSI or IDE protocol? He originally received the drive 
from Zip pre-formatted, without any documentation or utility software. He 
has tried Copy II Plus and Prosel's Cat Doctor, but I suspect he needs 
something else to overcome the existing MS-DOS format presently on the 
card since both of these program are choking. I'm willing to try Apple's 
SCSI Utilities which came with my HS SCSI card but I have strong doubts 
if this will work on an IDE device. 

Can anyone out there help? 


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