Syquest EZ Drive, PC and Mac compatibility
Michael Guthrie
Does anyone know if EZ Drive disks can be read between PC's and Macs and
all the permutations therein, i.e., PC format/PCFile to Mac, Mac
Format/MacFile to PC, MacFormat/PC File to PC, etc.
My friend has a Mac with an EZ and I have a PC with an EZ.
Any ideas how to share files for Quark and Photoshop?
And then to send these files from my PC to a service bureau?
Thanks,
Michael Guthrie
gut...@artfusion.com
Axel Klatt
HI !
On Quark's WWW-Page there is a download-path for a program that makes
syquest-disks readable and writealbe for exchange between PC and Mac.
- But does anybody know, if there is a program for the exchange between PC and
Mac with the IOMEGA ZIP-Drive ? - I do need help with this problem !!!
Thanks
Axel Klatt
(kl...@hrz.uni-kassel.de)
Jerron1
Axel Klatt <klatt> writes:
>- But does anybody know, if there is a program for the exchange between
PC
>and Mac with the IOMEGA ZIP-Drive ? - I do need help with this problem
!!!
I'm looking for a solution to this too!
Ken Cooper
Electronic Systems Manager
Jerron Quality Color
Red Bud, IL USA
email Jer...@aol.com
Bill
On Monday, April 29, 1996, Michael Guthrie wrote...
We have the EZ where I work, and we have both PC and Mac platforms. The
Mac can read the PC formatted/format as long as you have PC Exchange
enabled. PC's cannot read a Mac formatted/format EZ disk.
Dave Brown
> Axel Klatt <klatt> writes:
>
> >- But does anybody know, if there is a program for the exchange between
> PC
> >and Mac with the IOMEGA ZIP-Drive ? - I do need help with this problem
> !!!
>
I've had no problem mounting PC ZIPs on my Mac with Apple File Exchange. I
can read and write them and so, if I remember to use 8.3 filenames, PC
collaborators have no problems either.
Now, mounting a Mac ZIP on a PC will no doubt be a bit more work...
Dave
--
Dave Brown
da...@proaxis.com
Kass Johns
> Axel Klatt <klatt> writes:
>
> >- But does anybody know, if there is a program for the exchange between
> PC
> >and Mac with the IOMEGA ZIP-Drive ? - I do need help with this problem
> !!!
>
> I'm looking for a solution to this too!
>
The Zip drive cartridges are no different from any other disk to an OS.
They are all block devices and so most any device that can see a fixed or
removable drive/cartridge will be able to "see" them. The only difference
is that maybe the drivers for the various OS's are not updated yet to see
these newer devices (if they were using some bizarre new technology--which
they are not that I know of). On the Mac, check within PCExchange (be sure
the SCSI ID for the Zip drive within the Options box is checked). On the
PC, I would find out if Mac-In-DOS (commercial) has an upgrade or MacSee
(shareware). I recently read something somewhere about someone recommending
Mac-in-DOS *Pro*. I suspect this may be useful.
I am not a PC user so cannot tell you much about how/why on a PC, but I do
know drives. Block devices are block devices! No different from SyQuest,
fixed drives, floppies, Zips or Jaz's. They all have block sectors read by
a head. The drivers recognize these block devices.
Will not the Iomega PC drivers and Mac drivers that ship with the device
recognize the cartridges from their counterpart platforms? If those drivers
do not, then I would think that Iomega needs to be accountable for that.
THEY are the ones who market and brag about easily taking the devices
between platforms (this is also why the drives ship with drivers for each
platform).
FWIW,
-Kass
Axel Klatt
Hi everybody !
I think the problem with exchanging files from Mac to PC with ZIP-Drive is not
only to me ! - But in the last days I got some solutions:
1. There is a good program, called "TransMac" that reads, writes an formats
ZIP-Drives which are connected via SCSI to a PC. The exchange is no problem
with using this ! (demoversion only allows to exchange 1.4 MB files !!! - but
exchangeing normal 1.44 MB-disks is o.k. !)
- you'll find this program on SimTel/win3/diskutil/tmac14.zip
2. Another program is called Macsq - it is for using Syquest-Drives, but
perhaps it will work with ZIP aswell (?) - It uses SCSI, too.
- you can get it via http://www.quark.com (Utilities) - there is also a program
for 1.44 MB-disks !
3. The programs macett30.zip and macsee22.zip (also on SimTel) can be used
aswell (but I didn`t try it).
I hope everybody will find a solution for his/her problem and will post it in
this newsgroup.
Thanks for all the help !
Axel Klatt
(kl...@hrz.uni-kassel.de)
Daniel Kin-Shing Kan
Jerron1 (jer...@aol.com) wrote:
: Axel Klatt <klatt> writes:
: >- But does anybody know, if there is a program for the exchange between
: PC
: >and Mac with the IOMEGA ZIP-Drive ? - I do need help with this problem
: !!!
: I'm looking for a solution to this too!
I'm coming from a pc standpoint, so forgive any errors i might have
describing the mac side... currently, i transport files between pc's and
mac's with no problem on a scsi zip drive... the pc uses 1 or 2
versions guest written for dos and windows 95, and a set of iomega drivers
for os/2... the mac runs the iomega guest that came with the zip tools
disk... the mac is a quadra running pc exchange... my guess was that pc
exchange helps the mac read the FAT file system of the pc zip disks... a
mac at a prepress house that i use often had trouble reading the pc zip
disks... they didn't have the guest program or pc exchange, but their mac
had some sort of "scsi identifier" to detect the zip drive... my opinion
would be to keep the zip disks in pc format, and run the mac guest driver
along with pc exchange and both pc's and mac's should be able to
interchange the files... now if you format your disks in os/2 using an
hpfs file system, now that's a different story!
Daniel Kan
dk...@uclink.berkeley.edu
Jerron1
I appreciate all the comments and it is good to hear that some are having
success.
I use either PC exchange or Dayna Multimounter to boot DOS Syquests and
opticals on the Mac. This is in addition to the Iomega Mac driver. Maybe
its
the Iomega driver, I don't know, but I have not been successful yet. I'm
looking forward to trying out some of the tips listed here.
Ken Cooper
Jerron Quality Color
Red Bud, IL USA
WillAdams
DataViz creates a commercial product called MacOpener which can do this
(read Mac Zip disks on a PC Zip Drive). It's a low-end version of their
product Conversions Plus which has the same capabilities plus file
conversion.
William Adams
William Adams
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.