Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Portable Storage

Hi Jerry,

Yes, there seems to be fewer problems with "floppy" implementations.
The ATA drivers go on as "fixed disks", and give me more problems.

Are there "socket services" available for this? What is the hardware
interface?

Alan KM6VV

Carol & Jerry Jankura wrote:

>
> Hi, Alan:
>
> The Sony doesn't seem to have a problem "hot swapping" the card out.
> Probably because you can remove the disk as if it were a floppy. Iomega
> claims that, by using their driver, you can hot swap with no problems.
> Otherwise, they suggest the unmount, etc.
>
> Now, any ideas on how to make it work with my Zenith Z-Star EX that actually
> runs the G-Code. This is a 486DX2-50 that's about 7 or 8 years old. I bought
> it when the Pentium notebooks were about a year before the Pentium-I based
> notebooks were due out.
>
> Iomega offers software that ought to work with DOS, including a "guest"
> routine that provides the driver on a "one shot" (run Guest each time you
> power up when you want to access their drives) driver. I'm running card
> services. Maybe I'll try commenting those lines out.
>
> -- Jerry