Subject: ZIP Drive trouble...
From: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)
Date: Sat, Jan 2, 1999 16Ç34 
Message-id: <76mada$bqe@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>


I have finally obtained and installed a SCSI ZIP drive on my IIgs. 
Believe it or not, it worked on the first try...though I had to work
through some SCSI voodoo issues before I could get the hard drive to work
after connecting the ZIP (the ZIP can only be ID#5 or 6; my HD was set to
4, so the HS-SCSI card was trying to boot the ZIP instead of the HD.  Now
that the HD is ID#7, the problem is solved.), that is all worked out now.

But I have found a problem.  I'm using the Apple HS-SCSI card (though DMA
OFF, so I guess it really isn't HS...) which I understand can handle
ejectable SCSI devices.

Well, when I was looking at a GS/OS Standard File Dialog, I got an
incessant beeping noise from the computer.  Suddenly it dawned on me what
was going on...I stuck a ZIP disk into the drive, it mounted, and the
beeping stopped.  Apparently GS/OS kept checking the device to see if it
contained any drives.  Or something like that.

Is there any way to suppress this?  I mean, yeah, if I have a ZIP disk in
the drive I want it to be available to GS/OS.  But what if there isn't
anything in that drive?  Do I just have to live with the noise?  Or should
I just keep a disk in that drive?  Or is there a system patch I should
know about?

Thanks for any help!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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