Re: [PCI] Zip drives cease to be able to read discs...

[Bruce Johnson]

On Saturday, August 14, 2004, at 06:03  PM, David Elmo wrote:
From: Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [PCI] Zip drives cease to be able to read discs...
I recently installed a Zip200 drive in my B&W G3. Initially this
read and wrote on Zip100 discs which were written on the external
Zip100 drive on my 6116; the Zip100 drive read these fine. But then
the Zip200 drive started throwing up the message "This disk is
unreadable. Do you wish to format it?". If I do format it, not the
Zip100 drive throws up the same message.
One drive or the other is failing, or out of alignment. Whichever drive 
has more problems formatting disks is the likely culprit. Betcha it's 
the Z100; they're old and getting unreliable. I jsut wnet trhougha huge 
hassle trying to get an old one working for a friend.

My advice is to find something other than Zip disks for the transfer. 
Fluxstringer's ethernet suggestion is a good one.


But anyway, the original question about zips is interesting. When 
one burns
to a CD (eg on antiquated 2x burner and Toast 3.5.7 software), one can
choose different formats. Like ISO 9660 (rather than 'Mac files and
folders') to share with a PC for example. This enables one to get mac 
made
files to a PC. What would the equivalent file format to ISO 9660 be in 
the
world of zip disks?
Zip disks are treated sort of like big floppies: you have FAT (PC) and 
you have HFS+ (Mac); that's it.

CD's are the odd duck out here, there's strict ISO9660, ISO9660 + 
redrock extensions, Joliet (which is a MS-orized version of the 
ISO+Redrock,), Mac format, Hybrid formats, plus the format that 
DirectCD uses, which is a standard. but I can't remember right now. I 
would hardly be surprised to learn of others.


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Bruce Johnson

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