On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 08:30 PM, Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You must use driver version 4.2 with System 6. You can boot a System 6 Mac from a Zip formatted with the 4.2 Zip tools, but you must then NEVER EVER pop that disk into a Zip drive on any Mac running a newer version Zip driver. The Zip extention automatically updates the disk driver on any Zip disk is sees with an older version.
Gregg's outline of accepted wisdom on Zip drives is correct, unfortunately. However, I refuse to accept that we have to live forever with the limitation that a System 6 Zip cartridge can never be used with System 7+. A couple of years I described a quick file edit on the driver extension 4.2 that allows it to work with Zip 250 drives as well as the original Zip 100; I suspect that a similar edit will work for 750MB drives but I don't have one to test. Do Iomega make a SCSI version?
Anyway, I'll return to this one again and in the meantime I'll write up a web page on the trivial hack to enable 250MB Zip drives. I suspect that it will not be rocket science to subvert Iomega's version checking but I may be as wrong as I normally am when I make broad predictions.
Phil --- http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/
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