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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drives?
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 00:15:28 -0700
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- In-reply-to: Mikko Varhe's message of Sat, 23 Mar 1996 12:11:59 +0200 (EET)
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- >>>>> "Mikko" == Mikko Varhe <k22681@kyyppari.hkkk.fi> writes:
- In article <199603231011.MAA02013@kyyppari.hkkk.fi> Mikko Varhe <k22681@kyyppari.hkkk.fi> writes:
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- >> We plan to get ZIP drives going under Executor by the time
- >> Executor 2 ships. In theory they should work already, and I
- >> thought that I had read a success story written by an Executor
- >> user with a ZIP drive, but I didn't save it. Either way, if we
- >> have to buy a drive for testing purposes, that's what we'll do.
- >> ctm@ardi.com
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- Mikko> As I mentioned earlier, in my machine DOS formatted ZIP
- Mikko> disks work without problems under Executor/Win95. Also Mac
- Mikko> formatted disks can be accessed if the ZIP disk is inserted
- Mikko> in the drive before starting Executor. This means that Mac
- Mikko> ZIP disks under Executor are comparable to hard drives and
- Mikko> they can not be swapped during Executor session like DOS
- Mikko> ZIP disks.
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- Yay. Good to here it.
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- We should be able to eliminate the restriction that requires you to
- have the cartridge in the drive when you start. I know what causes
- that and it should get fixed between beta0 and beta1.
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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