"Bill Holt" <billholt at iglou.com> wrote: > Question - does your OSX installation see your ZIP drive? If the setup is > similar to mine, the ZIP is a scsi and an affirmative answer would suggest > you have a termination or cabling problem.
No, OSX does not see the Zip drive. It does not mount and does not show in Profiler. I don't know if the Zip drive is SCSI. I don't think I have a problem; I think it is natural for a beige G3 running OSX. > Also, since I'm on a mini-tower, I think that buys me some latitude. Unlike > the desktop model, the mini-tower offered a scsi HD as an option and my > hunch is that that required some added built-in capability. I don't know. > For me to reconfigure the existing ATA drive ... would take days of my time ... Drag everything from the existing drive to the new drive. Don?t reconfigure the existing drive, unless you want to reformat it and have it for a fresh second drive. > I have a rev1 G3, so I can't piggyback another ATA drive ... > although it would be interesting to know if I could connect via the current > CD connection. If I can do that, then I could get the new ATA formatted > with the proper partitions, let the file transfers go overnight, replace the > current drive with the new one, and do the installation on a relatively > conventional setup. That is what I did. I bought a new ATA drive, plugged it into the CD cables, set it up from the old drive, and drag-copied everything over from the old. Copying everything over to the new partitions took me about a half hour, but then I only had four partitions of 1 MB each to copy. Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
