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

Paul T. Barton idezilla at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 7 11:32:29 EST 2005


Boisy,

Yes the zip drive works.
It's on the same cable as the CD-R drive;
CD-R = slave, ZIP = Master.

I can see changes in sector 0.
After format, (format /z0 "foobar-1" L r)
I type:
dump /z0@
and see the name change.
---

I'll try that PC fix :-)

Thanks, again!!!

Paul - idezilla

--- "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:


> 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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