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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: IOmega Zip drive + CrossDOS
- Date: 10 Mar 96 11:25:30 +0500
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- On or about 09-Mar-96 09:13:54 Spiny Norman typed the following words about
- "IOmega Zip drive + CrossDOS". My reply is thus...
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- Hi Spiny,
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- SN> I recently purchased a SCSI Zip drive, and it works famously on my A2091,
- SN> except for one minor dilemma: I can't seem for the life of me to be able
- SN> successfully install a CrossDOS partition to it. I've tried several diff
- SN> drive geometries and twiddled the mountlist options, but it keeps returni
- SN> "Format Error: 254" after it (ostensibly) formats all of the tracks. Wha
- SN> weird is that when I shrink the partition size down to a few megabytes (s
- SN> and shrink the CrossDOS mountlist entry down accordingly, it formats fine
- SN> can access it just like any other CrossDOS volume.
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- SN> Does anyone have a Zip drive working on an A2091 with CrossDOS? If so, I
- SN> your friend for life (or at least until next week) if you'd E-Mail me you
- SN> mountlist entry for it.
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- I don't have an A2091 but this works for me. I have the commercial version of
- CrossDOS so the partition doesn't have to end in "C" so you might have to
- change that .
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- PZ0:
- Surfaces = 1
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 196607
- BlocksPerTrack = 1
- BufMemType = 5
- Blocksize = 512
- Device = HardFrame.device
- Unit = 5
- Flags = 0x00000000
- Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
- Reserved = 0
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Bootpri = -20
- Globvec = -1
- Buffers = 150
- Dostype = 0x4d534800
- Mount = 1
- #
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- SN> Much grass.
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