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- >>>>> "Maren" == Maren Leyla Cooke <maren@bloom.harvard.edu> writes:
- In article <9603291459.AA27232@bloom.harvard.edu> Maren Leyla Cooke <maren@bloom.harvard.edu> writes:
-
-
- Maren> Hi, folks. Has anyone, in or out of ARDI, had success (or
- Maren> failure) in using a ZIP drive (with Mac-formatted disks)
- Maren> under Executor on a NeXTstation? It would be very useful
- Maren> for me to be able to zip big files around in between my
- Maren> NeXT and Mac networks elsewhere. I've seen various levels
- Maren> of success and different kinds of tricks for other
- Maren> platforms, but I'm not sure whether ZIPs will work on black
- Maren> hardware.
-
- We don't have any ZIP drives at ARDI yet. We'll probably buy one SCSI
- ZIP drive and one Parallel ZIP drive and then make them go under
- Executor. My *guess* is that they already work well on a NeXTstation,
- although I don't know if NEXTSTEP is smart enough to see the "disk
- inserted events". If not, you'll have to run the command:
-
- /usr/filesystems/HFS_XFer.fs/HFS_XFer.util -p sdN
-
- (where sdN is the /dev entry for your SCSI ZIP drive) after Executor
- has been started to get Executor's attention. You may also need to
- push NeXT's mac.fs entry aside in /usr/filesystems before you boot
- your machine in order to prevent NeXT's HFS filesystem from taking
- over the drive.
-
- It's hard to give specifics when we don't have such a drive in house.
-
-
- Maren> Thanks in advance for sharing any experiences you've had.
-
- Maren> -- Maren (longtime registered Executorite, glad ARDI's
- Maren> makin' it!)
-
- We're just getting by now, but when E2 ships we should be able to
- E X P A N D.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-