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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,de.comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems formatting ZIP
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 09:29:13 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <1171.6636T974T2155@netspace.net.au>
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- David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) said:
- >Henning 'Faroul' Peters (Faroul@beyond.hb.north.de) wrote:
- >: Hi!
- >: I just bought an iomega-zip, but trying to format a disk happily crashes my
- >: SCSI-Controller :-( It starts formatting, but stops at about track 100 (I
- >: reached 580 once...), the controller hangs (LED bright) and nothing works
- >: anymore (only reset helps).
- >: (The problem with that controller-hangup is known to me, it sometimes
- >: simply "refuses" to work on, but not as often and after that short time.)
-
- >You have a known controller problem and you think the ZIP is the cause of
- >the problem? Your logic escapes me. You need to get your controller
- >fixed.
-
- Have you turned reselection off?
-
- >I have an A3000/16 with WB 2.1 on it. The Zip drive is reasonably fast,
- >for a removable media, and has given me no problems. Don't try to fit
- >yours to your busted controller, get the controller fixed.
-
- AFS helps in the speed department.
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