Re: Apple IIgs With Apple SCSI card and Zip100 Drive

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com> wrote in message 1194846761.240946.293480@s15g2000prm.googlegroups.com">news:1194846761.240946.293480@s15g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
: On Nov 11, 8:49 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
: > On Nov 12, 6:21 am, Jcarlson1701 <jcarlson1...@gmail.com> wrote:
: >
: > > Hi All,
: >
: > > I just got an Apple SCSI card for my ROM01 GS (GSOS 6.0.1 running from
: > > floppy) and would like to get my old SCSI Zip drive to work with it. I
: > > installed the card, plugged my Zip drive in with a disk in it and upon
: > > booting up I get the dialog box that asks me to initialize the disk.
: > > However, when I click on initialize the system freezes up. Is there a
: > > special driver I need, or something I'm not doing right to cause this?
: >
: > You'll need to partition the zip disk for it to be used effectively -
: > an appropriate tool is included with GS/OS but I don't remember the
: > specifics.
: >
: > Matt
:
: When you get this working, I'm just dying to know how long it takes GS/
: OS to boot. Can you let us know?
:
: Thanks,
: Warr

It's comparable to hard disk. Roughly.

William Garber
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