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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1dbtnii.1bh2kas5wvs4cN@p16.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> >Having said that, while it didn't give me the normal `Can't fix that
> >volume' message, it found nothing wrong with the startup volume so I'm
> >not sure if would *really* have been able to repair it.
> 
> I'm just having an interesting time in some circumstances *finding* the
> startup volume. I have two partitions, 'HD' and 'Lenin' (don't ask).
> 
> If I boot (Cmd-Opt-Shift-Del) from my Zip backup copy of the system, from
> the internal Zip drive, I get the flashing question mark. If I boot (same
> Zip disk) from my external, SCSI Zip drive, it boots okay but neither of
> the HD partitions shows up on the desktop. Since they are IDE/ATA drives
> (on a G3), I'm not sure how to mount them. These ATA drives seem to be less
> friendly than SCSI all round; a pity that Apple had to use them to get the
> cost down- at least I presume that's the reason. 
> 
> Just out of interest, I also booted from the system CD-ROM and that shows
> me the HD (at least it did the second time I tried). I can't mount either
> of the Zip drives, but a floppy copy of Norton Disk Doctor comes up fine
> and does the business, if it needed doing. 
> 
> Any thoughts on mounting these ATA drives after booting from the SCSI Zip?
> A forlorn hope? Or is my system just being erratic?

Drive setup includes a mount command. YOu may want to look more closely
at the version of the Zip driver actually on the zip disk you are using.
I'm guessing that you've got an ATA internal Zip, which requires driver
6.0 or higher. This is available for download from Iomega. If the
version of the driver is earlier than this, it would explain the
problems with your internal Zip drive. 
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'ric