Greetings from Pensey's Point, Greg!
Greg Mayman put fingers to keyboard and spelled out some words about
POTENTIAL USER ASKS... to Peter Campbell on 03-Jun-96.
-=>> Peter Campbell mumbled something to James Walton <=-
-=>> on 27 May 96  07:57:29 about "POTENTIAL USER ASKS..." <=-
 PC>> The Zip software allows you to lock the drive so that the disk cannot
 PC>> be removed by pushing the button. Something you might want to do if
 PC>> there were young children around with sticky fingers, perhaps. The
 GM> Pardon me, what kind of floppy drives are these?
100MB from Iomega. Disks are just a little bigger and thicker than a 3.5
inch diskette, but drive is a lot more sophisticated. There is a SCSI
version for Macs and parallel and SCSI versions for PC's. Originally
there were only external ones but now there is an internal version. All
priced the same (except SCSI will need an additional controller card if
you don't have one).
 GM> All the ones I have ever had were linked by hard mechanical
 GM> methods from the button to the eject mechanism. They work just
 GM> as well with the power off as with it on, which shows that it is
 GM> a purely mechanical link. So how could any software lock it up?
Drive has to be on to eject disk as ejection mechanism is electrically
operated from a button on the front or software.
To get back to Ensemble. It is possible to lock drive from software and
Ensemble reacts by showing a different drive button icon depending on
lock state of Zip drive.
Regards
Pensey
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