Re: Zip Insider - is it GS compatible?

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 25 Apr 1997, Michael Hackett wrote:

> Oops, I spoke a bit too soon. I've run into one small glitch that
> has appeared after I installed the drive. In a standard file dialog
> box, if you go to the Disks list =without a disk in the Zip drive=,
> the drives are polled and the list updated repeatedly, so fast that
> I can't even get a double-click in before the list refreshes. Using
> the Open button works fine though, and it stops as soon as you
> insert a disk.

I have this happen with my 44MB SyQuest all the time and I do believe
that my brother has it happen to with his EZ135 also.

Personal guess would be that the Apple SCSI drivers have a problem
when they don't find a volume on a SCSI device on the chain and keep
on polling the drives to find it.

Although, I do notice that with my SyQuest, if I spind up a cart,
then spin it down after GS/OS has gotten a chance to recognize it,
I don't have any problems.

It's annoying, but you learn to live with it.

Greg B.

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