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David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) said:
>Henning 'Faroul' Peters (Faroul@beyond.hb.north.de) wrote:
>: Hi!
>: I just bought an iomega-zip, but trying to format a disk happily crashes my
>: SCSI-Controller :-( It starts formatting, but stops at about track 100 (I
>: reached 580 once...), the controller hangs (LED bright) and nothing works
>: anymore (only reset helps).
>: (The problem with that controller-hangup is known to me, it sometimes
>: simply "refuses" to work on, but not as often and after that short time.)

>You have a known controller problem and you think the ZIP is the cause of
>the problem? Your logic escapes me. You need to get your controller
>fixed.

Have you turned reselection off?

>I have an A3000/16 with WB 2.1 on it. The Zip drive is reasonably fast,
>for a removable media, and has given me no problems. Don't try to fit
>yours to your busted controller, get the controller fixed.

AFS helps in the speed department.


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