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Re: Parallel Zip Drive with Executor?



>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Clark <Jeremy_Clark@msn.com> writes:
In article <4is7o4$npa@news03.deltanet.com> Jeremy_Clark@msn.com (Jeremy Clark) writes:


    Jeremy> As far as I know, Mac formatted Zip disks still do not
    Jeremy> work in Executor with the parallel Zip drives.  I have
    Jeremy> exchanged e-mail with Cliff about this, and he says it is
    Jeremy> something they plan to implement before 2.0 if possible.

In theory it should work right now.  I think there has even been
someone on this list who has reported it as working.  However, you
can't get yours to work and we don't have one, so we haven't been able
to figure out exactly what the problem is.

    Jeremy> Though an ASPI driver will allow the parrallel drive to be
    Jeremy> treated as a SCSI drive, and while other mac-to-dos disk
    Jeremy> reading programs *are* able to transfer the files,
    Jeremy> Executor does not support parrallel drives yet.  Note this
    Jeremy> is only a problem with parrallel drives.  SCSI drives have
    Jeremy> been known to read Mac formatted media.

Executor shouldn't be able to tell that it's a parallel device.  The
ASPI drivers should just make it appear to be another SCSI device, and
it *should* work, but apparently it doesn't in some circumstances and
that's what we need to figure out, and since it's not a matter of
adding a new feature, we do hope to get it straightened out by
Executor 2's release.

    Jeremy> If I am wrong, and if *anyone* has been successful in
    Jeremy> reading Mac formatted Zip media with a parrallel Zip
    Jeremy> drive, please let me know.

Yes, we'd like to know, too.

    Jeremy> I am particularily interested in seeing if anyone has been
    Jeremy> able to do this in Linux, now that the new experimental
    Jeremy> kernal, 1.3.76, supports parrallel Zip drives.

Under Linux you need to tell Executor specifically about the SCSI
devices you use.  For instance, if Linux assigns your Parallel ZIP
drive as /dev/sdb, you would need to do the following before running
Executor:

  In Bourne shell derived shells:

    export MacVolumes=/dev/sdb

  In C-shell derived shells:

    setenv MacVolumes /dev/sdb


    Jeremy> Jeremy Clark Jeremy_Clark@msn.com

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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