[Coco] Setting up a ZIP drive w/ superdriver, help!

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Wed Dec 7 10:45:40 EST 2005


On Dec 6, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Paul T. Barton wrote:

> Boisy,
>
> It apparantly ruined two zip-100 disks by doing that
> low-level format. Durn!  From now on I'll use the
> "L" option in "format".

I don't think it ruined them.  I'll bet if you stick them in a PC and  
do a format on them there, they will be as good as new.  I'm not sure  
why you just can't reformat them in the CoCo though.

> Too bad that we can't burn CD's.

I wouldn't count on that happening soon.

> I had set it just as you suggested below
> and included it with the CDF+CD stuff
> being on the same cable).

Ok, so I assume the ZIP drive is working now?




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