Zip Drive usage

when u format with a PC, which i never use it with, but will eventually if i get the USB Zip for it

Lampdog wrote:

Beat~Monkey wrote:Let me ask yall this, I have been looking at getting a JAZ drive. Will a JAZ drive read 1gb and 2gb disks? Also will a JAZ drive read ZIP disks?

-= BM =-

Man, some peeps just wish for too much.

nah it was just a question that incidently got answered....
They make a 1GB JAZ and 2GB JAZ.....The 1GB JAZ will destroy a 2GB disk
if you try to use it from what I was told....BUt a 2GB drive will read a 1GB disk. And the 1GB drive will read a ZIP 100 disk...
Damn..I 'll just stick with the 100's.

Beat~Monkey wrote:if you try to use it from what I was told....But a 2GB drive will read a 1GB disk. And the 1GB drive will read a ZIP 100 disk...
Damn..I 'll just stick with the 100's.

WTF? You can use a 100MB Zip cart in a Jaz drive?? I ain't saying your wrong but I have never heard or seen this.
Personally I hate the whole Iomega line and in the 90s I wasted hours in workplaces (graphics/print) wrestling with Jaz drives before the advent of cheaper HD storage. The recent click o'death of my own ZIPs just cemented this feeling. I am putting a Card reader in my new XL as fast as I can.

Slick

Doron wrote:

stryke wrote:That's a common thing when formatting on a p.c. What are you using Fat or Fat16/32?

If you format on the mpc and like Mrc said use partions you should be able to use the whole disk.Even if toy don't partion you can still use the whole disk.


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...what do you mean by using Fat16/32

That's the Format for the zip drive.Right click on the zip drive and go to Format.......Fat16/32..Fat....Ntfs.