On Saturday, August 14, 2004, at 02:03 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
I recently installed a Zip200 drive in my B&W G3. Initially this read and wrote on Zip100 discs which were written on the external Zip100 drive on my 6116; the Zip100 drive read these fine. But then the Zip200 drive started throwing up the message "This disk is unreadable. Do you wish to format it?". If I do format it, not the Zip100 drive throws up the same message.
Zip100 & Zip200 drives are compatible when using Zip100 discs, so the fact that one is a 100 and the other a 200 is not the problem.
This is the only way I have of transferring files etc between the two machines.
Ideas please?
If your 6116 is running OS 9 and your B&W G3 is running OSX, that is probably what is causing the problem. I had the exact same problem with Zip disks between a 9600 running OS 9 and an iMac running OSX. I found that if I used OSX's Disk Utility to erase the zip disks, then they worked just fine in both machines after that. I only had to do the "erase" in Disk Utility one time for each disk. I used Mac OS Standard for the Volume Format. I also checked the box Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers.
Nancy
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