Re: iomega zip drive on GS

[just.dave@genie.com]

tward@flowbee.interaccess.com (Tony Ward) writes:

>Myles Fudge (crownmi@io.org) wrote:
>: I picked up the 100mb zip drive recently, and am using it on my GS with
>: an original Apple rev.c SCSI card.  The drive works nicely as 3 32mb
>: ProDOS partitions per 100mb disk.  Does anyone have any suggestions or
>: recommendations about using this drive on their GS?  Are the most recent
>: ROMs for the RamFAST able to prevent the system hanging problem after the
>: drive has gone into sleep mode?

>The RamFAST Rev. D, 3.01ez does not exhibit that hanging problem. The 
>drive works flawlessly with it. In fact, with the new HFS patch you can 
>now reliably format the Zip disk as a single HFS volume if you want.

The Apple HS SCSI card also does not have that problem.  For what it's
worth, I have been able to get my Iomega Zip drive running flawlessly on an
Apple Rev C SCSI card by using the drivers that Tulin supplied with the
Floptical drive.  I think you can buy the drivers themselves without the
drive directly from Tulin for about $25 or something.  I could not get the
Zip running properly on the Rev C. without them.  The Zip works fine with
the Apple drivers on the HS SCSI card, but you will still need the Tulin
drivers if you want the GS to be able to automatically eject the Zip drive. 
With the Apple drivers, you have to eject manually.
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