Re: RamFAST with Floptical?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

swpeters@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Scott Peterson) writes:

>I am borrowing an Iomega Floptical drive (previously used on a Mac) to 
>test it on my ROM 1 GS.  If it works I'll buy it. (Any ideas on a fair 
>price?)

>My RamFAST revision C ROM V3.00h w/256K recognized the drive but gave an
>MLI error when trying to format it.  Partitioning didn't work either, but
>I think you format first and partition second.  There were no other
>apparent problems -- it even recognized the difference between a 21MB
>floppy and a standard HD floppy. 

  Sometimes it is difficult to format a floptical (or any disk in a floptical)
with a RamFAST. I have heard horror stories from a _few_ customers,
but I've personally never had any problems.

>Do I need a ROM upgrade for the RamFAST?  If so, who, where, & how much?  
>Anyone else successfully using this combination?

  Call 800-759-4549. $16.00. We're up in Lafayette, CO :)

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