Rich wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:Rich wrote:I would appreciate a steer in the right direction.As I still don't have a SCSI card yet (except the 'funny' CMS one that came with my GS), I'm trying to find a way to copy several 32 meg volumes (that I saved 10 or 15 years ago) from Zip disks to my PC. Perhaps there I could use Ciderpress to look and see what files/programs I have on these volumes.There are 6 volumes, 32 megs each, on two Zip disks. I copied them there using a Ramfast (when I had one).Now, if I insert one of the disks in a Zip drive connected to my WinXP PC, it says the disk is unformatted and offers to format it for me (of course).What happens if you simply decline the offer, then use CiderPress to open the volume? I'm familiar with Macs offering to format unrecognized volumes, but usually XP just sits there until you try to do something with it. Perhaps its the Zip driver that's making all the fuss. Is is connected via IDE, SCSI, or parallel port. (If it's parallel port, you are stuck with the Zip driver.) -michaelThank you, Michael.I suspect you are correct that it is the lack of a Zip driver for Apple files on a PC that is the problem. It is connected to my PC via parallel port.I tried setting it up, declining the format, then opening CiderPress to go looking for it, but it couldn't see anything on the Zip drive.I do have SCSI Zip drives, and a PCI SCSI card, but I'm reluctant to install it in my PC for just this one exercise. My motto is "Don't mess with a working PC unless you've GOT to!".I'll just keep looking for a good SCSI card for my IIGS.
While I understand your reluctance to "fix something that ain't broke", if you're running WinXP, it has very powerful and trustworthy built-in tools to roll back to an earlier system configuration. Just create a recovery point and do your install (actually, installing a driver will automatically create a recovery point). Then install the SCSI card and try your experiments. This takes almost all the risk out of making changes like this, since you can "undo" them if there's a problem. You can roll back to any earlier recovery point either in normal mode or in "safe mode", so even "won't boot" problems can be fixed easily. I'm continually surprised that more marketing pizazz wasn't generated about this recovery feature of XP (and later) systems. Many people don't seem to know that it exists, and it has been a *huge* improvement over the "plug and pray" approach that characterized Windows software installs for many years. The ultimate in "sandbox" systems is to install Microsoft Virtual PC, which is a free download, and allows you to install other OS's, etc., which will run completely safely in a window on your system. -michael NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."