[Coco] IDE internal 100mb ZIP drives

[Ray Watts]

Thanks for further hints.  Now I have something to look for in "pcdos". 
 If the ZIP has to be changed, I think it might be easier to patch the 
FAT info on the disk.  After all, no one will ever need more than two or 
three of these disks so fifteen minutes with dEd and the ZIP disks is 
not a big problem.  Finding the correct patch is.

Cheers,  Griz


Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Willard Goosey may have mentioned these words:
>
>> I believe that ZIP disks have a partition table, like a hard drive,
>> rather than a simple boot/noboot sector 1 like a DOS disk floppy.
>> Also, I don't know which DOS filesystem (FAT12 or FAT16) would be used
>> on a 100MB ZIP disk, as compared to a 720K floppy.
>
>
> FAT12 had a 32Meg limit -- I'm quite sure it's FAT16 (as standard) but 
> of course, can be formatted for anything... I _think_ you could make 3 
> FAT12 partitions, but that would be a bit counterproductive. ;-)
>
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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