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- A Dummy Guide For The Iomega ZIP Drive
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- Macintosh/IBM formatted Iomega ZIP Mountists V1.1
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- by STEFANO CAIROLI
- email: cacio@locebbs.chnet.ch
- fido: 2:301/231.20
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- It seems that a lot of Amiga users are asking for help on how to read/write
- a PC or a Macintosh formatted ZIP disk; now you have here the 2 mountlists
- that all the world was looking for and a brief explanation on how to use them!
-
- I have to say that English is not my first language, so it's possible that
- you aren't going to read a Shakespear-like text;-)
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- Using the mountlists:
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- Simply copy the mountlists (including the icon file;-) to the
- Devs/DOSDrivers or the Storage/DOSDrivers directory of your boot disk.
- (if you don't like the MagicWB-like icons, simply change them;-)
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- If you are still using a 1.2 or 1.3 Workbench, you have to edit your
- Devs/Mountlist file and insert here the ZIP mountlists.
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- It's obvious that you have to have CrossDOS and/or CrossMAC installed to
- use these mountlists!
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- - CrossDOS is shipped with any new Amiga and with any Amiga equipped with the
- Workbench 2.1 or better.
- - CrossMAC is a commercial product, you can buy it from any good Amiga shop!
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- Attaching an IOMEGA ZIP drive to your AMIGA:
- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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- You can add a _SCSI_ ZIP drive to your Amiga simply by buying the drive,
- buying a SCSI controller (if you have a A3000 you already have an
- integrated SCSI controller, if not you can easily buy a SCSI card for all
- the Amiga models) and connecting the two using the supplied 25-25 SCSI
- cable (you'll find the SCSI cable into the original ZIP box).
- Make sure that both the Amiga and the ZIP are turned off when you connect
- the cable!
-
- !!!! At present is _NOT_ possible to use a PARALLEL Zip drive with an Amiga
- !!!! computer, so don't buy one !!!
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- Before turning on your computer, make sure to set correctly the ID number
- and the termination of the ZIP drive (if the ZIP is the only external SCSI
- unit that you have attached, turn _ON_ the termination!).
- When turning on the Amiga and the ZIP drive, it's possible that your Amiga
- will not boot and the SCSI led (the red one) of the ZIP drive is on: it
- means that you have 2 SCSI units that are using the same ID: simply turn
- of the computer and the ZIP and change the ZIP's SCSI ID. (you can set it
- to 5 or 6).
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- Formatting your first Amiga ZIP disk:
- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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- Here is an explanation on how to format a ZIP disk with your Amiga using
- the HDToolBox program: (you can find HDToolBox in the Tools drawer)
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- 1. boot your AMIGA with a ZIP disk already inserted into the ZIP drive,
- or insert a disk before starting HDToolBox;
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- 2. start HDToolBox;
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- 3. select the SCSI address where you have connected the ZIP drive
- (you have ony two choices: 5 or 6)
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- 4. Press the "Change Drive Type" button, then select the "Define New..."
- option;
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- 5. Press the "Read Configuration" button, HDToolbox will read all the
- necessary informations directly from the ZIP drive;
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- 6. Press "OK", then "OK" another time: you have just defined a new disk
- type for the ZIP drive. The next time you have to format a ZIP disk you
- can skip directly to the next phase, you don't have to redefine a new
- Drive Type.
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- 7. From here you can use the ZIP disk just like an hard disk: you can
- create/erase new partitions with the "Partition Drive" option, you can
- make a ZIP disk autobooting, etc.
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- 8. when you have finished partitioning the disk, press the "Save Changes to
- Drive" button to save the configuration to the ZIP disk.
-
- 9. return to AmigaOS and format the new disk; you can make a "FAST FORMAT"
- or, if you want to verify the whole disk, make a format with VERIFY ON.
- (if you have problems ith the Workbench format, ie you can't select the
- ZIP drive from the device's list, open a SHELL and format the disk
- with the CLI _Format_ command)
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- Mounting a PC/Macintosh ZIP drive:
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- You have 2 choices:
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- * open a SHELL window and type:
- Mount ZIPPC: or
- Mount ZIPMAC:
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- * Doubleclick the ZIPPC or the ZIPMAC icon that you have moved to the
- Devs/DOSDrivers drawer.
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- Reading/Writing an IBM/Macintosh formatted ZIP disk:
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- Simply insert the ZIP disk, mount the corresponding device (ZIPPC or
- ZIPMAC) and start using the ZIP disk like it was an Amiga formatted one!
- Depending of the SCSI controller that you are using, it's possible that
- your Amiga will not show the disk that you have just inserted into the ZIP
- drive: don't panic! Simply open a SHELL indow and type:
- Diskchange ZIPPC: or
- Diskchange ZIPMAC:
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- It's even possible that you have to type this more than one time..
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- Other usefull (?) ZIP stuff:
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- - You can find a lot of beutiful disk icons for the ZIP disks on Aminet:
- simply search the Aminet INDEX file with a "ZIP" keyword.
- (Exe: KipsZip.lha, MWBZipIcon.lha, ZIP-Icons.lha)
-
- - To mount/unmount a ZIP partition you can use the very usefull SCSIMounter
- utility: aminet/disk/misc/SCSIMounter203.lha
-
- - There are at least 2 commercial packages for the Iomega ZIP drives, one
- from Hisoft and other from ??? (sorry, but I don't remember the other
- firm name;-).
- With these you can easily format, eject, lock, unlock, password protect
- a ZIP disk.
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- Who wrote all this?
- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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- You can send all the money that you want, photos of your sister, email,
- Amiga hardware, postcards, Amiga software, keyfiles, new or used cars,
- airplane tickets, winning lottery tickets, Playboy subscriptions, ZIP
- disks, AMINET CDs, SIMM modules:
-
- STEFANO CAIROLI
- Via Chiesa 2
- 6833 VACALLO
- SWITZERLAND
-
- email: cacio@locebbs.chnet.ch
- fidonet: 2:301/231.20
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- History:
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- 1.0 First release.
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- 1.1 Added a more usefull README file ;-)
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