Re: HELP! Windoze ZIP disks on a IIgs?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>Update...
>
>On the advice of Supertimer and Rubywand, I installed MUG! and so far it
>works beautifully.

That's great!

>More beautifully than I was led to expect, as a matter of fact.  Okay,
>gurus, figure this one out--
>
>I've got a SCSI ZIP drive.  I've got an Apple High Speed SCSI card.  I've
>got a Floptical SCSI driver installed which seems to have reduced
>some annoyances in file-picker windows.  I have the ProDOS, HFS, MS-DOS,
>and DOS 3.3 FSTs installed.

Where do you get the Floptical driver?  I leave my Zip drive
turned off because I don't like the "infinity polling" caused
by a Zip drive turned on without a Zip disk in the drive.  ;-)

Does the Floptical driver solve the spin down/timeout
problems too?

>And now I have MUG!.
>
>I was informed that in order to use MUG! I would need to launch a GS/OS
>application before running MUG! so that the Finder's "I don't regognize
>this disk! <Format> <<Eject>>" window wouldn't come up and annoy me.
>
>For some reason, this doesn't happen to me.
>
>With only the System 6.0.1 Finder operating, if I stick my MS-DOS Zip disk
>into the drive, I get the sound effect associated with mounting a disk,
>then *nothing happens*.  No error message.  No new icon on the desktop. 
>Nothing at all.  This allows me to run MUG! from the finder, with access
>to all of the file management features.
>
>The upshot of all this?  
>
>My problem is solved.  Now the question is, why does it seem to work
>better for me than others, including the program author, have reported?

Could it be the floptical driver?

Your symptoms are similar to those of a RamFAST user who
I and MUG!'s author (Peter Watson) were trying to help get
MUG! to read PC Zip disks with.  He described the same
symptoms.  Nothing happened when he inserted an MS-DOS
Zip disk under Finder.  However, he was not able to get MUG!
to read the Zip disk at all while your system reads them with
no problems.

All of the other Apple High Speed SCSI and RamFAST users
I've communicated with say MUG! works with PC Zip disks
fine, but that Finder produces the "Eject or Format" dialog
box.

I would be very interested in getting rid of the Finder alert
and still keeping MUG!'s MS-DOS ability enabled.  So
please tell us how you did it.  Could it be the Floptical
driver?  I'm sure MUG!'s author would be interested too.