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Hi Roland ,
What's the question in fact ?
What do you mean by media issue, what drive are you talking about ?  
the floppy or the zip ?

I personnaly never had any problem with the Zips...It always had been  
recognized at once...
the termination switch  is behind the Zip Unit close to the ID ...
I guess the External Zip is always appearing like the last ID,  
probably bc it's the last slot to plug in on the motherboard.


My Zip Id is 5 or 6...

  can you check that  you haven't got to ignore (again as usual with  
the SDX...) messages  & continue formatting process for example ?...

& yes the external drive has exactly the same use as the internal  
one ...
When you change disk just ignore error messages (clicking on '' NEW "  
for example ...).

Let us know ...

Patrice.




Le 20 sept. 08 à 03:36, rolandbrenner@... a écrit :

> 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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