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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Parallel Zip Drive with Executor?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:17:26 -0700
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- >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Clark <Jeremy_Clark@msn.com> writes:
- In article <4is7o4$npa@news03.deltanet.com> Jeremy_Clark@msn.com (Jeremy Clark) writes:
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- Jeremy> As far as I know, Mac formatted Zip disks still do not
- Jeremy> work in Executor with the parallel Zip drives. I have
- Jeremy> exchanged e-mail with Cliff about this, and he says it is
- Jeremy> something they plan to implement before 2.0 if possible.
-
- In theory it should work right now. I think there has even been
- someone on this list who has reported it as working. However, you
- can't get yours to work and we don't have one, so we haven't been able
- to figure out exactly what the problem is.
-
- Jeremy> Though an ASPI driver will allow the parrallel drive to be
- Jeremy> treated as a SCSI drive, and while other mac-to-dos disk
- Jeremy> reading programs *are* able to transfer the files,
- Jeremy> Executor does not support parrallel drives yet. Note this
- Jeremy> is only a problem with parrallel drives. SCSI drives have
- Jeremy> been known to read Mac formatted media.
-
- Executor shouldn't be able to tell that it's a parallel device. The
- ASPI drivers should just make it appear to be another SCSI device, and
- it *should* work, but apparently it doesn't in some circumstances and
- that's what we need to figure out, and since it's not a matter of
- adding a new feature, we do hope to get it straightened out by
- Executor 2's release.
-
- Jeremy> If I am wrong, and if *anyone* has been successful in
- Jeremy> reading Mac formatted Zip media with a parrallel Zip
- Jeremy> drive, please let me know.
-
- Yes, we'd like to know, too.
-
- Jeremy> I am particularily interested in seeing if anyone has been
- Jeremy> able to do this in Linux, now that the new experimental
- Jeremy> kernal, 1.3.76, supports parrallel Zip drives.
-
- Under Linux you need to tell Executor specifically about the SCSI
- devices you use. For instance, if Linux assigns your Parallel ZIP
- drive as /dev/sdb, you would need to do the following before running
- Executor:
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- In Bourne shell derived shells:
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- export MacVolumes=/dev/sdb
-
- In C-shell derived shells:
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- setenv MacVolumes /dev/sdb
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-
- Jeremy> Jeremy Clark Jeremy_Clark@msn.com
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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