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- From: Graham Chiu <gchiu@compkarori.co.nz>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive formatting
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:42:38 +1300
- Organization: CompKarori
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- In article <9604152048.AA0000m@furry.demon.co.uk>, Scott Hughes
- <scott@furry.demon.co.uk> writes
- >
- > Edward P.Chaltron Jr (datarat@interramp.com) wrote:
- > : It's killing me. I can't format the Zip disk that comes with the drive. I
- > : know the disk is locked, but when I try to unlock it I'm told I need a
- > : password.
- >
- Are you using the ZipTools from HiSoft?
-
- > I've got exactly the same trouble on my Apollo A1230 + SCSI
- > board, I've tried with Apollo software, HDTools and RDPrep
- > and they all recognised it as write-protected.
- >
- > Also my other Zip disk formatted and then got corrupted and
- > now will not format. Is there anyway to get round this or will
- > I have to replace it. I've tried to re-prep it but to no avail.
- >
- > Thanks in Advance
- I've had some pretty funny experiences with Zip drives. I was trying to
- back up with an A1200 DKB 030/50 and Ferret scsi. Any file of
- significant size eg: 1Mb would corrupt on being transferred to the zip
- drive. I set the mask to $ffff and lower in HDTools with no benefit. I
- also kept getting errors on the zip disks.
-
- On several occasions I tried to low level and high level format the
- disks and was unable. However, the same Zip drive, and same disks
- worked flawlessly on a A4000T - and those that could not be low level
- formatted on the A1200 worked fine on the A4000T.
-
- So, it might be the scsi controller that is causing your problems ( and
- mine ) rather than the zip disks/drive.
-
- Graham Chiu
- web pages: http://www.compkarori.co.nz
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