Re: Apple II Csa2 FAQs 9/9/1998 Zip Drive & Tape

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Rubywand wrote:

>     Regarding for-Mac Zip disks: what you are saying is unclear. Are
>you saying that a for-Mac disk can not be formatted as a single HFS
>volume from the Finder? Are you saying they must be formatted or that
>they must be partitioned using ADU?

That's the theory, although I have not tested it.

Mac Zip disks come with driver partitions, so if you just try to stick
it in a GS' Zip drive, the Initialize dialog box will pop up twice and
if you click yes to both, you end up with a two partition disk, the
first one (the driver partition) being 5 kilobytes in size!

You don't need to partition it through ADU or another utility, but
if you don't, you are stuck with the 5 kilobyte partition.

Basically, Macintosh Zips are already partitioned.

The only way I can think of to get rid of it is the "erase hard disk"
feature I think the RamFAST utilities have (but I don't have a
RamFAST, so I can verify), a Macintosh utility, or the Zip utilities
for the PC.  PC Zip utilities include one that will "prepare" a Zip
disk.  I'm fairly certain that preparing the disk with the PC Zip
utilities will turn the Mac Zip disk into one that can then be
formatted as a single nonpartitioned volume from the GS Finder.