Re: Zip Drive Question

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Peter Watson (paw77@NOhotmailSPAM.com) wrote:
: "Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
: news:8ujpls$c9l$1@acme.gcfn.org...
: > One thing that might be important:  The disk in question was purchased as
: > a preformatted Macintosh ZIP disk, but was reformatted for MS-DOS...in
: > fact, I think I used MUG! to do the reformat.

: Hmm, interesting. The ability to format Zip disks is pretty new. So new, in
: fact, that only a few beta testers have that version of MUG!. Certainly it
: should not be available to an unregistered user.

Interesting.

It turns out that my system (which DOES use the Apple High Speed SCSI
card) isn't as unusual as I once thought...a "pure" MS-DOS ZIP disk will
set off the Finder's "The disk in SCSIHD02 is unrecognizable" error.  So
it most certainly has something to do with the fact that the one disk I
had been using, though now an MS-DOS disk, began its life as a Macintosh disk.

I don't remember for certain whether I formatted that disk on the GS or
not, but I thought I did, and the only thing I have on the GS that can
handle an MS-DOS ZIP disk is MUG!.  I experimentally stuck a PC-format ZIP
into the drive and hit the format button, and I got a format dialog, but
the largest volume size it would permit was 21 Mb.  Since I didn't want to
format the disk, I didn't go any further.  But I wonder about that, too...

It was a year ago that I created the 'mystery disk'.  I wonder if the fact
that it was already formatted in a standard format made a difference,
allowing MUG! to identify it as a 100Mb disk.  After all, the SCSI device
just gets a 'Format' command...MUG! just has to figure out how to make it
DOS-compliant.  Or something like that; I still know a whole lot more
about DOS 3.3 than I know about GS/OS... 8-)

Oh, and as if you didn't already know...yes, my copy of MUG! is still
unregistered.  I use it little enough that the annoying dialog isn't
*that* annoying.  I do need to take care of that, though.......

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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