Re: Zip drive troubles..

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The6yhn program sounds interesting, but how did you get a 250 Meg Zip
drive
> working on the Apple II?  I thought all 250 meg Zip Drives were USB.
>      ][ Infinitum!
> JaY
>
> <<  I have a Zip 250 drive with 7
> ProDOS 8 partitions and all 7 are mounted when I boot my IIgs.
>
>     I've modfied Chinook SCSI Utilities so that an Apple revision "C"
> SCSI card can partition Zip disks.

Right in GS/OS is a program called Apple Disk Utilities.
It already CAN partition Zip disks and initialize them.
I've done several of them, and one has 1 ProDOS
partition and the rest is HFS. Why try to revive the old
sick horse when you have a perfectly good young Philly
in the stable?

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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