On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Gil Knutson babbled on about '[voyager] Re: ORB Drive':
> On 24-Oct-99,* Andreas Frank*, of Planet Melmac, wrote these Wise Words:
>
> >> I wonder if we will get a driver for the new ORB....? GK> That
> > is a LOT bigger than a ZIP...
> >
> > Driver? Who needs drivers? Do we run Windoze?
> > Did anyone require a ZIP drive driver?
>
> Yep. I have one here if you want to look at one....
>
> > Should work w/o plug'n'pray or anything.
>
> Well, not quite.... ZIP, or anything else, does not,
> I believe, run without knowing a bit about what the
> default for the disk is...
>
> Can someone correct me on this, or verify it as true?
>
> Gil
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Gil,
The ORB, ZIP are all hard drives! The mistake most people make with them
is treating them like a floppy drive. No special software or drivers are
needed, unless you want to read IBM formatted disks in the ZIP drive. There
is a nice program on Aminet that takes care of that.
Just treat them as you would any other SCSI drive and you should be good
to go! That is read their geometry, low level format, ZIP is one partition,
ORB can be more and be sure to keep all the disks the same logical name like
ZIP0 or ZIP or ORB0 or ORB or ORB2, ORB3 if you partition it. That helps
to keep the confusion down in the drive when changing disks. Call them anything
on the Workbench you want.
Patrick
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