No actually, I was going on really, really old data. My first Zip100 drive
was an external SCSI model. I believe it was very shortly after they first
came out. To install the Mac software, you hooked the drive up to the Mac,
inserted the Zip disk into the drive, and booted. The disk mounted as a hard
disk, and you ran the Iomega tools installer. If memory serves, the program
was for Zip or Jaz, so I assume the installation method was the same. All of
this was done on my LCIII, BTW (The LCIII was a fairly old machine then
tho.)



Terry
> I had major trouble booting an early 1GB Jazz drive.  Perhaps this is
> fixed now.
>
> Note:  SCSI firmware typically makes SCSI devices bootable.  Easy as
> pie on a Mac.  It takes an advanced SCSI card on a PC to boot anything
> other than the first device!
>
> However, the I-Omega software makes the ZIP/JAZ/etc. drive *stable*.
> You're playing with fire (ie, lost data) running the drive without the
> software.  It was never designed to be a boot drive!


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