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Important notes on Iomega and Hard Disk Toolkit Extensions: |
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Stephen Trujillo of MacGurus wrote in response to the IDE ZIP/FWB HDT issues noted in the G3-ZONE recently with a warning on mixing those extensions:
They strive against one another to do the same thing, and if folks have
both loading they can expect to have problems.
In our experience, using HDT to handle removable media (except in
PowerBooks with VST expansion bay ZIP units), including all MO, Zip, Jaz,
etc., works better than even the latest Iomega sw. You have to know what
you are doing, though.
For example, to reformat an Iomega Tools disk, you have to reformat it
using the Iomega Tools utility. You can then reformat it, or even just do
a quick initialization, with HDT. After formatting all fixed drives,
whether IDE or SCSI, and all removable media, whether Zip, Jaz, or MO,
with HDT, you need to tweak the HDT Tools Extension so it is the only
extension of its kind loading.
By installing HDT on all machines on a network, everything works better:
network transfers are faster and more reliable, and Macs themselves
benefit from running only one set of drivers. We use HDT on all fixed
drives, and all removables, and don't miss the hassles of the Iomega
stuff. We also use and like CD-ROM Toolkit with our Plextor 32x Ultra
CD-ROMs. Works great. The only FWB products we don't use are Storage
Wizard, TurboBoot, and RAID Toolkit. TurboBoot is a nightmare, and not
compatible with a lot of stuff (and it doesn't really seem to do that
much, anyway), while RAID Toolkit has not been updated to parity with HDT
2.5.2 in quite some time. We're not sure WHAT FWB is doing there, as RTK
used to be one of the best RAID apps on the Mac, bar none. Now, we
strongly advocate the use of Conley SoftRAID. It just works faster and
more reliably than any other RAID software.
My two cents, FWIW.
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