Re: [MacPerl]Solution MacPerl Zip drives bug

[robinmcf@altern.org]

>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".


OK maybe we're talking about 2 different situations :

I can see the disk, MacPerl(just to keep this on topic) couldn't (but now can).

I can examine my Zip disks with Norton DD. I can examine them with Disk
First Aid - but in the event I get the dreaded "This disk cannot be read by
this computer, do you want to reformat it? dialog I cannot do ought but
lose my data. That is, unless I buy a winX comp and then download the handy
Norton Zip  doodad,  it says this in the Zip users manual, or rather it
says I should visit the Iomega web site should I need to salvage a disk,
which inturn only has a WinX Norton doojammer in the "Cooltool �" section
(or was it "KewlTewl �"). Though I am more than ready to admit I haven't
had the (mis)fortune of actually needing to do anything (yet) to salvage a
zip disk, so my understanding of the post crash drill may be a tad skewiff.

===== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org