Re: Zip drive =800k?

[mfumu@alphalink.com.au (Bill Robbins)]

In article <6p8vv2$69f@examiner.concentric.net>,
mlpearce@!SPAMFREE@cris.com wrote:

> Louis Cornelio <cornelio@crl4.crl.com> wrote:
> : I have a question: has *anyone* been able to copy more than 800k
> : at a time to a zip disk without an error msg (usually $0027?)
> 
> 
> I have been able to copy 32 (31.5?) megabytes at a time. I made partitions
> on a zip cart the same size as the ones on my hard drive & just dragged
> one partition on top of another. I also copied a 6 meg PDF file from a PC
> CD ROM onto a cartridge, then copied the file onto my hard drive so I
> could write it to a HFS cartridge.

I can confirm this.  I do this as a matter of course, using a RAMFast
SCSI.  You can get two 32 Meg partitions and one just slightly smaller out
of a Zip disk.

> : I *do* recall the discussion about the need to supply terminal power,
> : but someone tells  me he has same prob w/ ramfast, which _does_ supply it.
> :  
> I'm still not sure that the zip NEEDS terminal power.

I don't know about the original Zip Drive, but my Zip Plus is auto
terminating, and it does work.  On my Mac PowerBook it's the last device
on the chain, but on my IIgs since termination is built into my hard
drive, it has to be last and the Zip before it.  Both arrangements work
with no adjustment on my part.

Bill Robbins
mfumu@alphalink.com.au