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Re: RamFast 3.01f and Iomega Jaz



Glenn Jones wrote:

Is there anyone out there with this combination that has got the Iomega Jaz
Drive running on a Ramfast or Apple HS SCSI card. Were you able to format
the drive on the apple or did you need to use preformted media from a Mac or
PC?

The drive name shows up but none of the stats are valid (0's for
tracks/sectors etc)
I tried formatting the 1GB drive while I still had 3.01b and the IIGS would
either hang or come back with a MLI error code. The media was okay before I
started as it had been formatted on my BeBox.
From browsing the news group messages via google it seemed to indicate that
it should work if I had a 3.10f rom.

I bought another JAZ drive + media (2GB this time) and got a copy of the
3.01f burned as well. After installing the 3.01f ROM the 1GB drive still was
not recognized properly and the media will not format.

I tried the 2 GB JAz drive as well same thing.

I moved the drive over to a Mac LC 575 Ii just aquired (for my IIe card) and
was not able to format the 1GB or 2GB media on the Mac as well. Ditto for
the 1GB back on the Bebox. I know both drives are okay as they will read one
other 1GB disk I have that is formated for BeOS.

Is it possible the RamFast Format messed up these cartridges or was it just
there time to crap out and a co-incidence.


I had a Jaz drive and occasionally used it on the IIgs. I bought the
drive in 1997 and used it for about 6 months before disposing of it.
I used Mac formatted disks though I did make one ProDOS formatted and
partitioned disk, more as an experiment. The Mac disks seemed to work
well but I recall the Ramfast utility did lock up a couple of times
before I got one formatted and partitioned.

I got rid of it because I found the disks to be hopelessly unreliable.
Most of the disks weren't used on the IIgs so that wouldn't have been
the reason.

After selling the Jaz I went to a 200mb Syquest for backup. Not a fast
drive but I've never lost one byte of data on it.

Wayne