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Re: Zip drive info.



>>>>> "Elan" == Elan Feingold <feingold@zko.dec.com> writes:

    Elan> Hope this helps the people at ARDI!

    Elan> begin 644 zip.dump.gz
...
    Elan> ?8!$P@;C\[U*4699:A*=8FC`:_T,#``#!SKQ```@``)YY ` end

That helped a lot.  Unfortunately it ruled out the problem that I was
expecting.  I now don't see any reason why Executor/DOS shouldn't be
able to read and write to a SCSI zip drive, assuming that the PC has a
SCSI port and either supports BIOS calls to read and write SCSI drives
or has ASPI drivers.  Ziv Arazi was the first person to report this
problem and I believe that Ziv has used other Mac formatted SCSI
drives with Executor.

There is no support for the Parallel port version of the Zip drive,
but as far as I can see the format of a Mac zip diskette (at least the
format of *Elan's* Mac zip diskette) is the same format that we're
handling in other cases.  ARDI now has to go back to the drawing board
on this one.  I think the only solution will be to buy one, which
isn't something we can do for another couple of weeks.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com



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