Re: Iomega Zip drive on IIGS

[jasonp@norton.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez)]

In article <4gm4pc$ebr@stork.qut.edu.au> yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo) writes:
>	Any pointers on how am I to use the Iomega Zip with the Apple 
>IIGS ? I just wanted either 4 ProDOS partitions, or 1 ProDOS and 1 HFS 
>parition on the Iomega Zip.

  I had access to a Zip drive for a few days.  I formatted the disks using
the RamFAST utility program, made each disk one HFS partition.  The GS
recognized the disks allright, but I had problems writing large quantities
of data.  If I moved small folders (< than a couple meg), no problems.  But
anything over that and it would hang nearly every time during the copy.  
Also the GS didn't like it when I ejected the disk and put in a different one.
Overall it was more trouble than it was worth.  My GS is a ROM 1, System 6.0.1,
8Mb RAM, RamFAST (one of the latest ROMS, 3.01x).

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