Subject: Re: Apple II Csa2 FAQs 9/9/1998 Zip Drive & Tape
From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
Date: Tue, Sep 15, 1998 1Ç13@

Message-id: <1998091508135600.EAA27125@ladder03.news.aol.com>

oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland) wrote:

>I have used Zip disks formatted for both Mac and PCs with my IIGS with an
>Apple High Speed SCSI card. The biggest difference I have found is that when
>using PC formatted disks the GS will ask if you want to format the disk when
>it is in a drive on boot up or if inserted while in the finder. With System
6.0.1
>and the HFS FST and a Mac disk you get the message about initalizing on two 
>partitions but will recognize the third. By launching Advanced Disk Utilities
>first before inserting the Zip disk you can avoid the formatting questions and
>just go right to the partitioning. At this point either format acts the same
and
>you will not have to do a low level format. In my case that means about 45 
>seconds to partition and format versus about 10 minutes for a low level
format.

Ahh, but try the low level formatted Zip disk versus the partitioned one
(even if it is just one partition on the Zip disk).  Using the HFS FST,
at least, the low level formatted (using GS Finder) Zip disk is noticeably
faster with data.

Also, both formats are not really the same.  If you scan the low level
formatted (from GS Finder) unpartitioned Zip disk with a hard disk
utility, it will report that it is a "single disk without partition table" or
something similar.

Hrmph...could it be that one of the reason for this is that GS Finder
is changing the interleave of the Zip disk?