The scsi zip drive has special commands that are not supported by the
SDX scsi. It can work if the drive is formatted by a normal pc / mac,
the zipdrive will show as a normal harddisk drive. Now you can format
it with sdx and it will work as a drive. A normal pc can eject and
format a zipdrive and use the special commands, this is inside the
driver you install in your pc.
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Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "rolandbrenner@..."
<rolandbrenner@...> wrote:
>
> Well as I mentioned previously, I removed the HD from the chain so
therefore the zip was the only device other than the floppy. SCSI
devices have a way of terminating ( or as you refer "addressing" ) by
either switches ( Zip ) or resistor packs ( HD's ). I'm no expert
myself, but I have to believe by removing all other devices in the
SCSI chain, the computer should at least try to access the zip drive
on boot up. I actually used this method to troubleshoot and perfect
the HD installation procedure.
>
> The media issue would be secondary as ( again ) the drive itself is
not currently recognized by the SDX. In other words, you can not
format a disk that is in a non-functional drive.
>
> Anybody else have any info they could possibly share before all my
hair is gone?
>
>
> - Roland
> http://www.myspace.com/roland_brenner
> Do you possibly have any conflicts with your SCSI adressing? You
know you need to
> assign unique adresses to each SCSI device in the chain. The ZIP
media need to be
> formatted just as the internal harddrive before you can use. It's
exactly the same
> procedure
> Bye
> Wolfgang
>
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