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At 05:16 PM 3/16/96 GMT, Kyle Silfer wrote:
>>Well, the SCSI Zip works just fine for me in Linux, but I just tried it
under
>>Win95, and although it seems to recognize the disk (and Get Info knows the
>>size of the disk), trying to copy a file to it thru the browser or HFSxfer
>>brings up a -127 error in PBHCreate.
>What about reading a Mac-formatted ZIP drive under Executor? It's simple to
>get the DOS drive to mount, but the real annoyance of ZIP drives is that Mac
>disks can't be read on a PC. If Executor could accomplish this task, it would
>be a strong selling point for the product.
I was talking about reading Mac-Zip discs. It works great in E/L, after setting
MacVolumes to the SCSI device (on my system, it's export MacVolumes="/dev/sda")
The problem is that E/D doesn't read the Mac-zips right.