(Excerpts from a message dated 11-03-99, John Thompson to Ron Nicholls)

Hi Ron--

JT>In a message to Charles Gaefke, Ron Nicholls wrote re: Confirmation
  >Needed

RN> How do you format a zip, hpfs,charles?

JT>IIRC, you need one of the newer fixpacks.  You need to "lock" the ZIP
  >drive to format and use it and explicitly "unlock" the drive to
  >remove the disk.

    If my experience is typical, you need an "older" FixPak :-).  I am
assuming that you have the Iomega OS/2 driver package for Zip diskettes.
Following the instructions therein, when I was able to so format Zip
diskettes under Warp 3 FixPak 5.  I experimented enough at that time to
learn that I didn't want to use Zip diskettes so formatted, so never
tried it again until I first saw your request.  I attempted to repeat
the trick (running under Warp 4 FixPak 5), just to make sure it still
worked, before I answered.  I didn't answer earlier, because it didn't
work :-(.

    So, it seems that some FixPak between Warp 3 FixPak 5 and what I am
running under now invalidated the ability to format Zip diskettes HPFS.
Since I have no desire to use Zip Diskettes formatted HPFS, I haven't
bothered to see if a later (or earlier) FixPak will restore that
ability.

    Maybe I should change the tagline to "Even if it is broke, you may
be better off if you don't FixPak it!"

    Regards,

        --Murray

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 * MR/2 2.25 #120 * If it ain't broke, don't FixPak it.

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