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Re: Zip Drive


On Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:58:29 PM UTC-4, Robert Boucher wrote:
> I need someone with a better memory than mine on a Zip drive problem. On 
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> a daily basis I use a IIe with a Zip drive (actually 2) for backup. 
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> Recently one of the drives began clicking. I vaguely remembered the 
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> click of death and so looked this up on the internet. There I found info 
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> on the disks, "Z-track", etc.
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> I have always used Copy II+ to format my Zip disks. Was there a special 
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> Zip utility for formatting disks when used with the Apple II?
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> If so, does anyone have a copy?

I do not think there was any special utility for the zip disks on an Apple II. Maybe the SCSI partitioning for 3- 32meg partitions. But once partitions you could format with Prodos.