Re: [MacPerl]Solution MacPerl Zip drives bug

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 3:05 PM +0900 8/11/99, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:

>A question (off topic):
>what other drivers are available for Zip? Anybody got any urls?
>
>Answers to Q's from previous postings:
>The disk is in Mac format.
>I would be using Norton Utilities 4 on it if I had a prog that could 
>read the disk (Norton Zip doctor is a WinX only thing).


No, no.  Norton *Disk* Doctor.   It deals with *any* HFS/HFS+ disk 
you can see in the Finder.  It doesn't matter what the disk is 
physically, what matters is the type of file system on the disk, and 
I'm assuming here you've formatted your disks with one of the two 
MacOS file systems.  If you don't have Disk Doctor, you *do* have 
Disk First Aid, which has been vastly improved from earlier versions. 
If either Norton Disk Doctor or Disk First Aid can't see the disk, 
you have serious problems along the lines of "this drive really 
doesn't work right with my Mac model/MacOS version".

>
>I have found the solution tho':
>I tried changing  the name of the disk, but that didn't do anything. 
>So going on the premise that if everybody else says it should work 
>and it doesn't then there must be something screwy somewhere, I 
>rebooted to see if that would make a difference (my comp normally 
>gets rebooted once a week or so as it's permanently on) and things 
>magically started working.
>
>deduction- not MacPerl, not Zip but system level generated prob.
>
>Thanks to all who wrote
>
>Robin



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