Does the Iomega Zip drive or removable drives work with Geoworks?
The Iomega Zip drive will work well with all versions of Geoworks/NewDeal. When using GeoManager or NewManager, the Zip drive appears as a 3.5″ floppy drive, but does contain its own drive letter. The earlier Bernoulli Box drives made by Iomega as well as Syquest removable drives like the EZFlyer will also work with all versions of Geoworks/NewDeal. Those drives are iconed with 5.25″ drives. NewManager in NDOr3 and later now has separate icons for Zip drives and removable drives, which can be displayed by editing the drive values of the [system]section of GEOS.INI. It is possible to run entire versions of Geoworks Ensemble from these drives, but be careful when doing this because you’re only supposed to use Geoworks / NewDeal on onemachine at a time. If Geos is loaded in a DOS window from Windows 95/98, and the Windows version of Guest or Active Disk is used for mounting Iomega drives, then the Zip or Jaz drive will be recognized. However, running Geos from MS-DOS mode requires the DOS
The Iomega Zip drive will work well with all versions of Geoworks/NewDeal. When using the GeoManager or NewManager, the Zip drive appears currently as a 3.5″ floppy drive, but does contain its own drive letter. The earlier Bernouilli Box drives made by Iomega as well as Syquest removable drives like the EZFlyer will also work with all versions of Geoworks/NewDeal. Those drives are iconed with 5.25″ drives. It is possible to run entire versions of Geoworks Ensemble from a these drives, but be careful when doing this because you’re only supposed to use Geoworks/NewDeal on one machine at a time.
