Re: RamFast 3.01f and Iomega Jaz

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote in message
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>
> Glenn Jones wrote:
> > Is there anyone out there with this combination that has got the Iomega
Jaz
> > Drive running on a Ramfast or Apple HS SCSI card. Were you able to
format
> > the drive on the apple or did you need to use preformted media from a
Mac or
> > PC?
> >
> > The drive name shows up but none of the stats are valid (0's for
> > tracks/sectors etc)
> > I tried formatting the 1GB drive while I still had 3.01b and the IIGS
would
> > either hang or come back with a MLI error code. The media was okay
before I
> > started as it had been formatted on my BeBox.
> > From browsing the news group messages via google it seemed to indicate
that
> > it should work if I had a 3.10f rom.
> >
> > I bought another JAZ drive + media (2GB this time) and got a copy of the
> > 3.01f burned as well. After installing the 3.01f ROM the 1GB drive still
was
> > not recognized properly and the media will not format.
> >
> > I tried the 2 GB JAz drive as well same thing.
> >
> > I moved the drive over to a Mac LC 575 Ii just aquired (for my IIe card)
and
> > was not able to format the 1GB or 2GB media on the Mac as well. Ditto
for
> > the 1GB back on the Bebox. I know both drives are okay as they will read
one
> > other 1GB disk I have that is formated for BeOS.
> >
> > Is it possible the RamFast Format messed up these cartridges or was it
just
> > there time to crap out and a co-incidence.
>
> I had a Jaz drive and occasionally used it on the IIgs. I bought the
> drive in 1997 and used it for about 6 months before disposing of it.
> I used Mac formatted disks though I did make one ProDOS formatted and
> partitioned disk, more as an experiment. The Mac disks seemed to work
> well but I recall the Ramfast utility did lock up a couple of times
> before I got one formatted and partitioned.
>
> I got rid of it because I found the disks to be hopelessly unreliable.
> Most of the disks weren't used on the IIgs so that wouldn't have been
> the reason.
>
> After selling the Jaz I went to a 200mb Syquest for backup. Not a fast
> drive but I've never lost one byte of data on it.
>
> Wayne
>

I am going to get one of Rich Dreher's compact flash cards and move over to
flash/ide.

Bad day today ...I think the RamFast (or something stupid I did) has fried
two of my hardrives (40 and 80MB) and my SCSI CD rom..

Sigh...