Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

[bird@MCS.COM (Joe Walters)]

In article <5ik8ep$dh5$4@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
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...

Mr friend thinks that the disk that comes with the Zip drive is a
tools disk and as such has some sort of software write protect that
the internal Zip processor pays attention to and won't format the
disk.

He "thinks" that a non-tools disk would format on the IIgs. No proof
though.

For some reason the RamFAST format gets around the problem.

> Has anyone gotten the Hi-Speed SCSI to work with the Zip, or has
> it only been RamFast with Zip so far?

My friend Howard has one working on a //e as his primary HD. He used a
Mac to format the disk though.

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