At 02:47 AM 3/24/96 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 2:45 3/23/96, Alan Olsen wrote:
The big problem is with the zip drivers. There is some sort of incompatibility between SFS and the zip drivers. [snip]
I can state that with a Zip Disk formatted for Macintosh use (and the drive plugged into a Macintosh), the drive and disk are seen by the Macintosh as a NORMAL SCSI HD and eligible for use as a Boot Drive (ie: There is a Mac Driver on the Disk in a SCSI Driver Partition). I've Booted from a ZIP Disk so this is actual not just theoretical <g>. I'd assume that if a Wintel Machine had the Microcode to be able to boot off an external SCSI Drive (something I do not know is normal for Wintel machines as it is normal for Macintosh ones) the same situation would exist for Wintel Zip Formatted Disks. All NORMAL SCSI HDs (or Cartridges) have their driver in a Driver Partition so the HD/Cartridge can be read.
The SCSI Zip drives do act as normal SCSI drives (though they have a limited number of SCSI ids available. (5 & 6 if I remember correctly.) Later drives may have this changed.) The problems i am encountering are due to the _parellel_ version of the Zip drive. (I bought it because I needed to be able to visit customer sites and not all of them have SCSI.) The drivers fake a scsi port. (Some laptops use a similar driver to attach hard drives to non-scsi systems.) Maybe I will just get a Jaz drive and not worry about it... --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon