Re: Help with Zip Drive and the IIgs

[EDavis <LNUSMNF.EDAVIS02@eds.com>]

More clarification:

I have an Apple SCSI card.  I have the Syquest drive with a SCSI ID of
"4", and the Zip is using "5".

I see that the SCSI card has 4 dip switches, and I don't remember
setting
these up when I got the card (circa '90).  I'll look up the owner's 
manual for the card...Could the dip switches need to be set a specific, 
DIFFERENT way to have more than one drive attached???

Also, Rubywand mentioned that the disks should come pre-formatted.  My 
drive is an external SCSI Zip drive.  It has worked fine with my Mac II
ci that sits next to my MAIN computer, the IIgs.  After fiddling a bit
trying to get the Zip drive to work with my IIgs, I reconnected it to 
the Mac, and re-initialized the media on the Mac.  It worked just fine, 
and I was able to save files on the Mac to it.  I then attached it back
in a SCSI chain to the IIgs, but could not get either drive to work in 
a SCSI chain.

If I have only the Zip drive attached to the Apple SCSI card, turn the 
termination switch to "on" at the back of the Zip, it is at least 
recognized by the IIgs.  I can boot from the 3.5" drive, and get asked
if I want to initialize the disk.  I have said "yes" in the past.  As
the 
Finder comes up, it repeatedly tells me that I already have a disk with 
the name z1 on the desk top, and I need to rename the disk to a
suggested
z11.  Then a z12, and so on, until my desktop is full of renamed Zip
volumes.  (This may have been after attempting to run Advanced Disk 
Utilities, and attempting to partition the volume.)

Sorry, this is not very well documented, and the events are running 
together.  I will climb into the attic tonight and pull out my SCSI card
owners manual.  I suspect my basic problem is those darn Dip
switches....