Kurzweil K2000 Drive Mounting

[chickeneps]

Say you have a SD card split 7 ways, 2GB each, each formatted by a Kurzweil K2000. The K2000 uses a FAT16 file system that both Windows and Mac can mount, although it doesn't use a partition map on Sector 0 as is common elsewhere. (Not having a partition map is a legal thing.)

Taking that SD card and putting it in a standard card reader, hooked to a Mac or Windows, each mount the first drive (starting at Sector 0) successfully (Mac gives it a Volume name 'Untitled', Windows gives it a drive letter), and operates on it fine.

If you put that SD card in a ZuluSCSI v6.4 (or SCSI2SD v6.0), and hook it up to a Mac, it mounts all 7 drives, as it's supposed to.

However, doing the same with Windows, the drives are detected but Windows does not 'mount' them; that is, does not give them a drive letter, and when looking at them in Disk Management, it first gives a dialog saying "drives must be initialized", then when cancelled, all 7 drives show as Unallocated.

Maybe this is a Windows problem, but why would Windows behave "properly" using a regular card reader but not react properly using ZuluSCSI v6.4 (or SCSI2SD v6.0) as a card reader? It seems perhaps something could be done in ZuluSCSI v6.4 firmware that could correct this.

[chickeneps]

Here are the screenshots form Disk Management


in Windows.