Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

[shack@onyx-206.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Captain Harlock (Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu) wrote:
: Is it possible to partition a Zip disk the way we can do hard drives? I've
: tried (using a Zip drive hooked up to an Apple IIgs with High-Speed SCSI card
: and a HFS-formatted 100 meg Zip disk) but the Advanced Disk Utility keeps
: telling me the disk could not be partitioned.

: Also, whenever my GS starts up and reads the Zip drive, I get the "Cannot
: identify disk" message. I click Eject, it appears again, I click eject, and
: then the icon appears on the desktop and from then on the system treats it like
: an HFS hard drive. Odd.

: Any ideas on how to solve both of these nagging problems?

Sounds like the symptoms of the APPLE_DRIVER43 problem. When you use a 
formatter which puts a SCSI manager 4.3 savvy driver on the disk, the driver
partition has this name rather than the normal APPLE_DRIVER partition. The
finder gags on this and thinks that APPLE_DRIVER43 is a disk volume and 
naturally, it's an invalid volume as far as the finder is concerned. Could be
the how come that the formatter is barfing on the disk too.

I discovered this when I put a HD SC setup formatted hard disk on my IIgs. The
cure was to use an old version which puts the normal APPLE_DRIVER partition
on the disk.

Judging from your .sig, looks like you aren't fond of Macs so no dice on 
that. So using IBM formatted zip disks would be the thing to try most likely.
--
Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net