[Coco] IDE internal 100mb ZIP drives

[Lothan]

Yes, ZIP disks have a partition table in the first sector since they are
seen as a removable hard drive to DOS/Windows. If I remember correctly,
100MB ZIP disks are preformatted with FAT32, although I've reformatted
several with NTFS and HPFS (from OS/2). I haven't used a ZIP disk in a few
years, though. I replaced my 100MB ZIP disk collection with a Castlewood Orb
2.2GB drive about three years ago. I just checked Iomega's website and see
they are now peddling the Iomega REV 35GB drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Willard Goosey
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 1:54 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] IDE internal 100mb ZIP drives

>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:37:41 -0800
>From: Ray Watts <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net>

>Next, I printed out dumps of the directory sectors of both 720kb 
>floppies and 100mb Zips both blank formatted and formatted with files. 
> Will spend some time looking at them, but what really struck me as 
>strange is that the first floppy sector has no similar features as the 
>first ZIP sector.  No wonder ther is an identification problem.  

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.

Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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