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to: Murray Lesser
from: Holger Granholm
date: 1999-11-09 21:47:00
subject: Confirmation Needed

In a message dated 11-06-99, Murray Lesser said to Ron Nicholls:

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

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.

ML>    If my experience is typical, you need an "older" FixPak :-).  I
ML>am assuming that you have the Iomega OS/2 driver package for Zip

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

Hi gang,

Having just plowed through the readme files of FP10, I remember there is
a file concerning removable media support.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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