Well I'm just now able to check the list. Thanks for the ideas. I installed the absolute newest Iomegaware 3.5 and now I got absolutely nowhere trying to initialize a zip in any format with it on the Atapi Zip. So I backed down to 3.0 and I can again perform whatever formatting hybrid it is achieving.
In one sense, Kennedy's theory seems plausible in that the heads may be misaligned. > ...this Zip drive recognizes disks it > formats, but no other zip drive can recognize them. And this Zip drive > can't recognize disks formatted in other Zip drives (until you reformat them > in this quiet loner of a drive)? Correct! > If I've got it right, then my guess would be misaligned head(s) in that Zip > drive. We saw a variety of issues when trying to get to the bottom of the > Zip "click of death." Some drives which developed the click would die > completely, others would read progressively less of a disk from one use to > the next, and others would work fine with disks they formatted (but those > disks couldn't be used in any other Zip drive until reformatted in the next > drive). But there is no "click of death" occurring that I too have seen in the past on other zips. > Have you tried initializing a blank ZIP in the IDE ZIP drive? It's possible > that ones initialized in the SCSI based drive are formatted differently > somehow. Of course, if true, this will shoot down most of the point of having > a ZIP drive, if you can't read disks written on other drives. But after trying > it, at least you'll know more than you do now. > > Jeff Walther I don't have any new 'blank' zips to initialize, but used ones do initialize. > For some reason, drives on SCSI busses or on ATA busses are configured a > little differently from each other and I think this is going to prevent you > from getting interoperability between your ZIP and other ZIPs. Of course, Jeff you may have an equally plausible theory. Either way, while there might be limited personal quasi-encription value to having this thing as is, a zip drive is little use unless I can use the zips with other people's computers. There might be a fix out there and I'll look into that web site this weekend when I have more time to experiment again. I suppose more experimentation over the weekend will help root out some clues. I wasn't able to try a disk on another computer today as I had hoped. Maybe tomorrow. One thing I am a little concerned about, and this depends on what is actually happening, is that copying files to and from this zip may generate bad resource forks of those files. Valid concern? I also made what may be a somewhat valuable discovery that others may find useful in creating an OS Boot CD. After using the Create Rescue Disk feature from IomegaWare, I can simply copy the 'Rescue' image to Toast and burn a bootable OS CD very easily. The Iomegaware formats everything you need and you can add other utilities to the image as well. Pretty slick w/o all the trial & error. So I'll keep trying and checking the list for any ideas over the next few days. Thanks again! Dave -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
