>From: "David R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:55:07 -0700 > >So I ran this update. Restarted my computer. Popped a 'Mac' formatted zip >into the drive. So it gives me the old "This Disk Is Unreadable, do you >want to Initialize it?". OK, nothing on the disk, why not, at least the >drive is getting recognized now. So I format it as Mac regular HFS. The >disk now shows up on the desktop, the Icon is a little different then I'm >used to (kind of looks like a peecee icon), but what the hey. I even drop a >few files on it and it copies them no prob. > >So then I eject the (newly Mac Formatted) zip and put it in my scsi zip >drive as the test. Pretty simple right? Well it failed! Gives me the >"This Disk Is Unreadable, do you want to Initialize it?". > >So what formatting monstrosity have I got going here? I get the feeling >I've got some form of Hybrid Zip now. Can someone help me rationalize this >a bit? > > Dave David, I'll take a shot on this.... The Plain PC looking icon is a clue that the disk is using a different driver then the Mac Iomega driver. I've seen this on my SCSI Zip drive when either they are PC formatted disks which I bought that way or when I formatted for PC/Dos for PC file backups. It's been awhile and the extensions and control panels have changed names over the years. I just checked things and my guess is that...You should open the 'File Exchange' control panel and make sure that "Map Pc extensions to the Mac OS file types on the PC disks " is checked. There used to be another control panel in older OS's but it seems to now be gone.Does anyone know if there is another control panel or extension David needs? I'm wondering if the ATA/IDE Zip drive may format disks as PC even if you check the Mac format box? It may need Apple roms or something to format as Mac?? I have used PC zip disks with no problems. Mac files etc transfered to them no problems. Try the above and let us know how it goes. Will S
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