[Coco] Setting up a ZIP drive w/ superdriver, help!

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Paul,

You should never do a low level format on any hard drive these days.   
It's a waste of time, especially with SuperDriver.  That said, doing  
it doesn't actually hurt anything, it just causes format to waste a  
bunch of cycles calling SS.WrTrk over and over, which again, does  
nothing.

That said, you should have TYP set to $91 (Hard Disk, Drive Size  
Query, 512 byte sector size) and  DNS set to $00 (IDE master).  It  
should not matter with the SID, CYL and SCT values are, as the driver  
will find out the size of the ZIP disk by interrogating it (due to  
having bit 4 in the TYP byte set).

I've ran both ZIP 100 and ZIP 250 ATAPI drives on my SuperIDE and  
both work equally well with SuperDriver.  Let us know what happens.

On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Paul T. Barton wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the reply, unexpected from you, as I know
> you're busy.
>
> I have the zip drive on the same cable
> as the CD-R drive at $FF50.
> CD-R is slave, zip is master.
>
> typ=$91 (or maybe $D1?)
> sid=$01, cyl=$60 sec=$800
>
> I tried to format it (low level) it got partway and I
> gave up waiting and ^C'd out. Then it wouldn't go past
> sector 2. So now I have two disks that are only 2 sectors
> long, HA! :-)
>
> I guess that zip disks don't get low-level formatted but
> should use the "L" option in "format".
>
> Paul - idezilla
>
>
> --- Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Yes....Use it all the time.
>>
>> I use a SCSI version external. If that is the one leave to the
>> termination ON, no matter what.
>>
>> You will want to what out for the auto query bit in the descriptor if
>> you plan on a partition. Otherwise let the driver be smart and take
>> care of things.
>>
>> IDE drive master/slave setup and it should just work.
>>
>> What are the problems you are having????
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Quoting "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>:
>>
>>> Has anyone setup a zip drive with cloud9's superdriver?
>>> (successfully). I want to know how,
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul - idezilla
>>>
>>> Yes, I have it and the instructions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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