Re: Zip drive as hard drive???

[crownmi@zot.io.org (Myles Fudge)]

In article <DsKu54.D4o.0.sheppard@torfree.net>,
Johnny Lau <be063@torfree.net> wrote:
>After hearing about all the good things about Zip

Oh yeah, there's a lot good about the Zip drive and it's disks --
including their durability.  I've dropped my disks countless times,
or have had them fall on the floor.  No problems at all with that.
It's a very nice storage medium.  I just want to see Iomega pump up
the transfer speed way beyond the lousy "up to 60mb per minute" and
the seek time faster than "29 ms".  The drive is nice and quiet.

>I'm sort of curious if 
>it can be set up so your IIgs will recognize it as a hard drive? (I know 
>that's not possible on the Mac and PC platform though.)

It certainly is can be done... otherwise I wouldn't be typing this 
message to you now.  While my hard drive is at Sequential Systems,
my sole SCSI volume is my Zip drive.  I have been using it as a 
stand-alone boot drive since the day I purchased it.  That's cool, too
because I have a boot disk for system 6.0.1, one for prodos 8, and
another that boots right into my PC Transporter software.  My other
zip disks are for storage.  I purchased the zip drive mainly as my
primary backup media, but I'm using it for everything now.

I'll bring it out the LOGIC SIG tomorrow afternoon and you can check it 
out.

BTW, I don't see any reason why a Mac or PC couldn't use it as a boot 
device, after all it is just another SCSI device, right?  My knowledge in 
that area is lacking.  As long as it works with my GS that's all that 
matters.
-- 
Myles
crownmi@io.org