[Coco] IDE internal 100mb ZIP drives

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sat Feb 26 04:53:58 EST 2005


>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:37:41 -0800
>From: Ray Watts <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net>

>Next, I printed out dumps of the directory sectors of both 720kb 
>floppies and 100mb Zips both blank formatted and formatted with files. 
> Will spend some time looking at them, but what really struck me as 
>strange is that the first floppy sector has no similar features as the 
>first ZIP sector.  No wonder ther is an identification problem.  

I believe that ZIP disks have a partition table, like a hard drive,
rather than a simple boot/noboot sector 1 like a DOS disk floppy.
Also, I don't know which DOS filesystem (FAT12 or FAT16) would be used
on a 100MB ZIP disk, as compared to a 720K floppy.

Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
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