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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: JAZ arrived - installed and working in 10 minutes!
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:13:29 GMT
- Organization: UT Applied Research Laboratories
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- A note for all you folks out there waiting for IOmega's JAZ drive, and whether
- it will work. My internal arrived yesterday (ordered from Insight Direct),
- and it took me ~10 minutes to install.
-
- My configuration:
-
- A3000 @16MHz, w/10 MB of memory (2/8)
- AmigaDOS 3.1
-
- external mini-tower containing:
-
- 105 MB Rodime HD
- 600 MB Teac streaming tape drive
- Panisonic 4x CD-ROM
- IOmega 1Gig JAZ
-
- The product comes with a interesting SCSI cable - one with termination on
- the actual cable. There is no termination on the drive itself (so no
- terminators need to be removed). The default SCSI ID is 4, and this worked
- just fine for me.
-
- I installed the unit in the 3 1/2" bay on my mini-tower, installed the
- 1 Gig cartridge, and then ran HDToolBox. HDToolBox scanned the various
- SCSI IDs and easily got the details from the drive. Then I partitioned
- the drive. Be aware (as had been mentioned previously by another poster)
- that when you select the JAZ to partition, that it takes ~10 minutes to
- come back at you with the partition menu. Having been made aware of this,
- I can tell you that I wasn't disturbed when it didn't come back immediately.
-
- I created a 100MB partition in the first 100MB of the cartridge and then
- created a second 100MB partion starting at location 500MB on the cartridge.
- Each time you wish to partition the cartridge, it will spend the ~10 minutes
- scanning the device. Don't know why - but it works fine.
-
- This weekend, I get to partition the JAZ into what I want and then transfer
- all sorts of data off the Rodime (so that it can be wholly dedicated to
- ShapeShifter).
-
- jerry
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