home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: UFPER6.UNIFR.CH!HITZ_O
- From: hitz_o@UFPER6.UNIFR.CH (oliver.hitz@unifr.ch <Oliver Hitz>)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive formatting
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 07:16:23 GMT
- Organization: Universite de Fribourg (Perolles), CH
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4l7ek7$8tb@siufuxsun01.unifr.ch>
- References: <523.6672T1241T2927@interramp.com> <9604152048.AA0000m@furry.demon.co.uk> <yd8QmDAuobdxEwiA@gchiu.compkarori.co.nz>
- Reply-To: hitz_o@UFPER6.UNIFR.CH
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ufper6.unifr.ch
-
- Hi...
-
- >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.
-
- Are you sure that you have correctly terminated the scsi bus? This is sometimes
- also a source of transfer errors.
-
- cu... Oliver
-