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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 24 Jan 96 11:42:42 +0500
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- On or about 23-Jan-96 19:57:42 Warren Block typed the following words about
- "Re: ZIP vs SyQuest". My reply is thus...
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- WB> Peter da Silva (peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
- WB>: In article <1903.6588T778T2112@xmission.com>,
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- WB>: >I don't see what the big deal is about the ZIP only using SCSI 5 or 6.
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- WB>: It means if you have two other drives you can't boot off the Zip.
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- WB> Huh? If you have a Zip with a higher BootPri than your other bootable
- WB> devices, the system will boot off of it. This has nothing to do with SCS
- WB> address.
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- Yes it works just fine. The boot partition on my machine is kept pretty much
- virgin C=. I created a bootable ZIP disk and copied my whole boot partition to
- it. I set the boot priority to 4. If that disk is in the ZIP drive at boot
- time the system boots from it just fine.
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- WB>: It means if you want to use the Zip on a PC too, you can't boot off it
- WB>: all.
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- WB> I believe that some (but not many) PC SCSI controllers can boot off SCSI
- WB> devices at addresses other than 0 or 1 (check in comp.periphs.scsi).
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