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Le 22 sept. 08 à 20:31, sarsipri a écrit :

> The scsi zip drive has special commands that are not supported by the
> SDX scsi. It can work if the drive is formatted by a normal pc / mac,
> the zipdrive will show as a normal harddisk drive. Now you can format
> it with sdx and it will work as a drive. A normal pc can eject and
> format a zipdrive and use the special commands, this is inside the
> driver you install in your pc.
>
> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "rolandbrenner@..."
> <rolandbrenner@...> wrote:
> >
> > Well as I mentioned previously, I removed the HD from the chain so
> therefore the zip was the only device other than the floppy. SCSI
> devices have a way of terminating ( or as you refer "addressing" ) by
> either switches ( Zip ) or resistor packs ( HD's ). I'm no expert
> myself, but I have to believe by removing all other devices in the
> SCSI chain, the computer should at least try to access the zip drive
> on boot up. I actually used this method to troubleshoot and perfect
> the HD installation procedure.
> >
> > The media issue would be secondary as ( again ) the drive itself is
> not currently recognized by the SDX. In other words, you can not
> format a disk that is in a non-functional drive.
> >
> > Anybody else have any info they could possibly share before all my
> hair is gone?
> >
> >
> > - Roland
> > http://www.myspace.com/roland_brenner
> > Do you possibly have any conflicts with your SCSI adressing? You
> know you need to
> > assign unique adresses to each SCSI device in the chain. The ZIP
> media need to be
> > formatted just as the internal harddrive before you can use. It's
> exactly the same
> > procedure
> > Bye
> > Wolfgang
> >
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