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- Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drives?
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- From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister@ios.com>
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- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:39:32 -0500
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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.
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- 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.
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- Ian
- vmeister@ios.com
- http://ios.com/~vmeister/
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