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- From: prospero@indigo.ie (L Mac Mullan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive formatting
- Date: 20 Apr 96 15:49:36 +0000
- Organization: Indigo
- Message-ID: <993.6684T949T1824@indigo.ie>
- References: <523.6672T1241T2927@interramp.com> <9604152048.AA0000m@furry.demon.co.uk> <4kvckf$hhi@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- In message <4kvckf$hhi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Tracy C Skinner
- (tskinner@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu) wrote:
- >I am also having probs with the zip. I have an A3000 softkick 2.04. I can
- >get the drive recognized as scsi 5 but it won't access any disks. I tried
- >HDToolbox (v2.22) and it reads the drive but can't read any disk. I tried
- >saving info to the disk and get a -1 write error. I tried lowlevel format
- >but all that happens is the hard disk light comes on and a window saying
- >"formatting" but no access to the zip and no format. Is there some
- >internal termination or some setting that I need to change. Thanks for
- >any help.
- >Tracy
-
- See my other reply on this one, but this sounds very like what was happening
- to me with my first Zip drive. Does your drive give a "clunk-clunk" sound when
- you try to format or save changes?
-
- If it does it's probably a damaged head, time to get in touch with IOMEGA :-(
-
- L Mac Mullan (prospero@indigo.ie)
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