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

[Mark Marlette]

Paul,

As I recall...On the PC there are some IOmega 
tools that will repair those disks. Don't recall 
the name of the util. Been running ZIP drives since ~1997.

Mark

At 12/6/2005 08:54 PM, you 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".
>
>Too bad that we can't burn CD's.
>
>I had set it just as you suggested below
>and included it with the CDF+CD stuff
>being on the same cable).
>
>
>Thanks!,
>
>Paul - idezilla
>
>--- "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:
>
> > Paul,
> >
> > You should never do a low level format on any hard drive these days.
> > It's a waste of time, especially with SuperDriver.  That said, doing
> > it doesn't actually hurt anything, it just causes format to waste a
> > bunch of cycles calling SS.WrTrk over and over, which again, does
> > nothing.
> >
> > That said, you should have TYP set to $91 (Hard Disk, Drive Size
> > Query, 512 byte sector size) and  DNS set to $00 (IDE master).  It
> > should not matter with the SID, CYL and SCT values are, as the driver
> > will find out the size of the ZIP disk by interrogating it (due to
> > having bit 4 in the TYP byte set).
> >
> > I've ran both ZIP 100 and ZIP 250 ATAPI drives on my SuperIDE and
> > both work equally well with SuperDriver.  Let us know what happens.
> >
> > On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Paul T. Barton wrote:
> >
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply, unexpected from you, as I know
> > > you're busy.
> > >
> > > I have the zip drive on the same cable
> > > as the CD-R drive at $FF50.
> > > CD-R is slave, zip is master.
> > >
> > > typ=$91 (or maybe $D1?)
> > > sid=$01, cyl=$60 sec=$800
> > >
> > > I tried to format it (low level) it got partway and I
> > > gave up waiting and ^C'd out. Then it wouldn't go past
> > > sector 2. So now I have two disks that are only 2 sectors
> > > long, HA! :-)
> > >
> > > I guess that zip disks don't get low-level formatted but
> > > should use the "L" option in "format".
> > >
> > > Paul - idezilla
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Paul,
> > >>
> > >> Yes....Use it all the time.
> > >>
> > >> I use a SCSI version external. If that is the one leave to the
> > >> termination ON, no matter what.
> > >>
> > >> You will want to what out for the auto query bit in the descriptor if
> > >> you plan on a partition. Otherwise let the driver be smart and take
> > >> care of things.
> > >>
> > >> IDE drive master/slave setup and it should just work.
> > >>
> > >> What are the problems you are having????
> > >>
> > >> Mark
> > >>
> > >> Quoting "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>:
> > >>
> > >>> Has anyone setup a zip drive with cloud9's superdriver?
> > >>> (successfully). I want to know how,
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Paul - idezilla
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes, I have it and the instructions.
>
>
>
>
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