Re: Zip Drive & IIgs

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Steve Sanders <robsan19@popalex1.linknet.net> wrote:

>Finally got around to hooking the Zip drive to my trusty Apple IIgs. The
>IIgs is a Woz ROM 1, with RamFast SCSI, Rev C and Rom version 3.01e.
>
>When I fire up the computer, I automatically enter the RamFast
>Utilities, and it identifies the zip drive. My problem arises when I try
>to partition the zip disk. I tried to get three partitions of 32.768k
>each. When I select partition, I get the warning that this will erase
>everything on the drive, I selsect OK, then get the following message:
>
>RamFast MLI Error
>Command: 04-03 85 00 60 05 00 00 00 00
>Status: 27
>
>After reading a few other posts, I understand that the Staus 27 is an
>I/O error, but why didn't the disk partition? Do I need to format it
>first with RamFast? I was told before that all I needed to do was just
>partition the IBM formated disks.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

Use Advanced Disk Utilities (ADU) from System 6.0.1.  It likes
Zip drives.

Another option is to use HFS and simply format one big HFS
Zip "diskette" without partitioning from the GS Finder.  This
second option only works if you are willing to boot from floppy
or if you have a hard drive to boot from, of course.

When a Zip disk is formatted from Finder, two things happen.
First, the format takes several minutes, so don't panic.
Second, the resulting big HFS disk is a bit faster than a
partitioned Zip disk with HFS as the file system.  See, with
HFS, you can have a ~100MB volume.