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Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?



Tilghman Lesher <NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> Just tried this yesterday.  Yes, they can be partitioned correctly;
> however, I noticed you have an Apple Hi-Speed SCSI card, rather than
> a RamFast card.  This may make all the difference when attempting
> to format or partition the drive...
> 
> Has anyone gotten the Hi-Speed SCSI to work with the Zip, or has
> it only been RamFast with Zip so far?

I briefly connected my Zip drive to my IIgs with Apple High-Speed SCSI
card, and it seemed to work fine.  The only annoyance was that
Mac-formatted disks appeared to have additional partitions on them (this
was discussed in a recent posting here - the driver partition has a
partition owner which is not recognised by the Apple SCSI driver as
being a driver, so it tries to mount it as a user partition.)

I was also able to partition a ZIP disk.

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David Empson
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