Death rays from Mars made alano@teleport.com (Alan Olsen) write:

At 05:08 AM 3/23/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:

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On 23 Mar 96 at 3:00, Ed Carp wrote:

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Has anyone tried SFS? It should work on the zip drive, though I've not tried it (yet)...

If I recall some recent threads on alt.security.pgp (or sci.crypt?), SFS doesn't work on ZIP drives (since ZIPs use the parallel port...).

[Or do ZIPs use Scuzzies and the people who had problems were just too lame to figure out that they had to load the driver before SFS?]

There are two versions of the Zip drive. One is SCSI and one is Parallel faking scsi.

The big problem is with the zip drivers. There is some sort of incompatibility between SFS and the zip drivers. (I hacked on it for a couple of hours with no luck.)

The Zip drives have a firmware bug in that they don't do anything if the (appropriately-named) FUA bit is set in SCSI requests, and then return a command complete status. SFS 1.20 has a workaround for this problem. It works with both SCSI and parallel-port versions. Before anyone asks when it's due out, its the end of February, probably about the 60th of the month. Peter.