| Install to Jaz Drive [message #360870] |
Mon, 15 January 2018 19:37  |
Brian Marstella
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I've seen a few discussions on other sites that a Jaz SCSI drive can be used to install to a 1 GB disk. Being the impatient type, I have a power supply coming and already have a drive, cable, and about 15 disks. Does anyone have experience using this with a IIGS and Apple SCSI card?
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360877 is a reply to message #360870] |
Mon, 15 January 2018 21:12  |
Wayne Stewart
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I used one with the IIgs and a ramfast SCSI card about 20 years ago when the Jaz was first marketed. Had terrible luck with disk and drive reliability.. Iomega replaced the dead disks and drives for free but I soon got tired of that and traded them for something. I believe they improved reliability since.
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360878 is a reply to message #360877] |
Mon, 15 January 2018 21:57 |
David Schmidt
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On 1/15/2018 9:12 PM, waynejstewart@gmail.com wrote:
> I used one with the IIgs and a ramfast SCSI card about 20 years ago when the Jaz was first marketed. Had terrible luck with disk and drive reliability. Iomega replaced the dead disks and drives for free but I soon got tired of that and traded them for something.
Agreed - I help lots of people get data OFF their Jaz disks. Then I
punch a hole through the platters and throw them away. The only thing
worse was their Zip drive.
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360879 is a reply to message #360870] |
Mon, 15 January 2018 22:53 |
Hugh Hood
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On 1/15/2018 6:37 PM, Brian Marstella wrote:
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> I've seen a few discussions on other sites that a Jaz SCSI drive can
> be used to install to a 1 GB disk. Being the impatient type, I have
> a power supply coming and already have a drive, cable, and about 15
> disks. Does anyone have experience using this with a IIGS and Apple
> SCSI card?
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Brian,
Here's a thread from a while back on using a Jaz with both a RamFAST and
an Apple HS SCSI card. I think you may find it helpful.
<http://www.macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&id=205392#msg>
Steve Hartz started that thread, Wayne Stewart contributed, and I think
Glenn Jones actually had some success using a Jaz with the Apple card.
Hartz still comes by this group occasionally. I seem to recall helping
him write an AppleWorks macro to wake the Jaz from sleep at one time, so
I guess he got it to work. Maybe he'll see this and comment.
I've never used a Jaz, so I can comment directly. Sorry.
But, unlike Schmidt and quite a few others, I've had good results using
Iomega's Zip 100 drives for over 20 years now.
Sure, I've had some drives fail over the years, but I've kept enough NIB
spares to keep the party going. I never lost any data due to a drive
error, fortunately.
That said, all SCSI Zip and Jaz owners, myself included, should probably
switch over to the SCSI2SD device or the Artmix FuzinMonster SD, and
step into the 21st century. :-)
Hugh Hood
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360896 is a reply to message #360879] |
Tue, 16 January 2018 11:10 |
David Schmenk
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> But, unlike Schmidt and quite a few others, I've had good results using
> Iomega's Zip 100 drives for over 20 years now.
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SNIP
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> Hugh Hood
You <CLICK> are <CLICK, CLICK> lucky <CLICK>.
I have one SCSI Zip drive I am nurturing along before it goes to the great Bernoulli Box in the sky :-(
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360903 is a reply to message #360896] |
Tue, 16 January 2018 12:52 |
David Schmidt
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On 1/16/2018 11:10 AM, David Schmenk wrote:
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>> But, unlike Schmidt and quite a few others, I've had good results using
>> Iomega's Zip 100 drives for over 20 years now.
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> SNIP
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>> Hugh Hood
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> You <CLICK> are <CLICK, CLICK> lucky <CLICK>.
Oh man, a chill just went down my spine. Nothing like the sound of
ANOTHER drive biting the dust, destroyed by a disk read error. I got
tired of eBaying for more 100's all the time, so I now have a stack of
internal 750 drives that seem to be a little more resilient. Maybe the
heads are a little lighter so re-seeks aren't as physically destructive.
But Zip technology needs to die in a fire.
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360913 is a reply to message #360870] |
Tue, 16 January 2018 16:41 |
Jerome Vernet
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Le 16/01/2018 à 01:37, Brian Marstella a écrit :
> I've seen a few discussions on other sites that a Jaz SCSI drive can be used to install to a 1 GB disk. Being the impatient type, I have a power supply coming and already have a drive, cable, and about 15 disks. Does anyone have experience using this with a IIGS and Apple SCSI card?
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I'm using a FAST SCSI Apple card and a ZIP 250M drive with my Apple
IIgs. Work perfectly, faster than with the Apple HD40 I use also.
I tried a JAZZ drive, without problem. Be carefull, you can only have 32
Mb partitions, not more...
JV
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360916 is a reply to message #360913] |
Tue, 16 January 2018 17:34 |
Brian Marstella
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Thanks for all the feedback. I bought about 40 1GB Jaz disks a couple of years ago but hadn't found a use for them. After looking for an external hard drive to use with the GS, though, it was cheaper to buy the cables to connect the Jaz drive so I figured it was worth a shot.
Brian
On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 4:41:04 PM UTC-5, Jerome Vernet wrote:
> Le 16/01/2018 à 01:37, Brian Marstella a écrit :
>> I've seen a few discussions on other sites that a Jaz SCSI drive can be used to install to a 1 GB disk. Being the impatient type, I have a power supply coming and already have a drive, cable, and about 15 disks. Does anyone have experience using this with a IIGS and Apple SCSI card?
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> I'm using a FAST SCSI Apple card and a ZIP 250M drive with my Apple
> IIgs. Work perfectly, faster than with the Apple HD40 I use also.
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> I tried a JAZZ drive, without problem. Be carefull, you can only have 32
> Mb partitions, not more...
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> JV
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360939 is a reply to message #360903] |
Wed, 17 January 2018 00:16 |
Hugh Hood
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David,
I realize that this 'advice' is probably offered a little late in the
game to be considered helpful, and, moreover, you may already know it
since you are quite a thorough fellow, but anyway, here goes:
Iomega had quality issues with some of the wall wart power supplies
supplied with the external Zip 100s. It seems that as the wall warts
aged, they lost the ability to regulate closely their 5 VDC output
voltage when put under load.
Thus, some errors were caused by drives that 'worked', but that were
being driven by an under voltage condition.
I had one or two of these, and found that a new 'modern' well-regulated
PS cured the issue. Others on the 'net reported the same, IIRC.
Whether this was the issue with one or more of the units you had is
anyone's guess, but I thought I'd mention it to you if you haven't
already incinerated all your external Zip 100 drives. ;-)
Hugh Hood
On 1/16/2018 11:52 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
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> Oh man, a chill just went down my spine. Nothing like the sound of
> ANOTHER drive biting the dust, destroyed by a disk read error. I got
> tired of eBaying for more 100's all the time, so I now have a stack of
> internal 750 drives that seem to be a little more resilient. Maybe the
> heads are a little lighter so re-seeks aren't as physically destructive.
> But Zip technology needs to die in a fire.
>
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #360995 is a reply to message #360939] |
Wed, 17 January 2018 17:14 |
Brian Marstella
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Thanks for the tip on the power supplies. Turns out I have a second drive stashed that I'd forgotten about so I believe I'll acquire a modern power supply for it as you say and maybe do some testing.
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #362277 is a reply to message #360870] |
Fri, 02 February 2018 04:07 |
Brian Marstella
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Well, it's entirely possible to install GS/OS to a 1 GB Jaz drive and boot from it on an Apple IIGS. It takes a while to setup but doesn't require anything special. I can detail the procedure for anyone interested. I can also provide a couple of pics to prove it...
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #362381 is a reply to message #362338] |
Sat, 03 February 2018 06:43 |
Brian Marstella
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On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:11:26 PM UTC-5, geoff body wrote:
> Hi Brian, does the Jazz drive suffer from going into a sleep mode if left idle for a while (30 minutes or longer).
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> GeoffB
I'll have to do some testing. I'm not sure if I've left the system idle that long.
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #363094 is a reply to message #362381] |
Sat, 10 February 2018 11:57 |
Jurai
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 03:43:37 -0800 (PST), Brian Marstella
<brian@marstella.net> wrote:
> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:11:26 PM UTC-5, geoff body wrote:
>> Hi Brian, does the Jazz drive suffer from going into a sleep mode if left idle for a while (30 minutes or longer).
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>> GeoffB
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> I'll have to do some testing. I'm not sure if I've left the system idle that long.
Yes it does.
-- Jurai
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| Re: Install to Jaz Drive [message #374453 is a reply to message #363094] |
Tue, 09 October 2018 19:50 |
Brian Marstella
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On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 11:57:41 AM UTC-5, Jurai wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 03:43:37 -0800 (PST), Brian Marstella
> <brian@marstella.net> wrote:
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>> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:11:26 PM UTC-5, geoff body wrote:
>>> Hi Brian, does the Jazz drive suffer from going into a sleep mode if left idle for a while (30 minutes or longer).
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>>> GeoffB
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>> I'll have to do some testing. I'm not sure if I've left the system idle that long.
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> Yes it does.
> -- Jurai
Well, finally had some time to get back to the thread. I've been tinkering quite a bit the last few days and I've found that although the Jaz goes to sleep and GSOS complains about the drives being unavailable, cycling the power and waiting about 30 seconds restores things as if nothing had happened.. All partitions back online and ready to go.
Still planning to get a good external SCSI drive, though, that won't feel the need to doze.
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