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Author: Frank Zündorff
EMail : F.Zuendorff@ernie.mi.uni-koeln.de
Break the barrier
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It's no mystic anymore, the SCSI version of iomegas ZIP-Drive is running fine
with Amiga computers equiped with a SCSI-hostadapter. But a new aspect for a
ZIP-Drive is the feature to exchange Data on PC-formatted medias. What
advantages brings it for you?
Now you can swap a large amount of data (like mods, pics, 3d-objects etc.)
without carrying a large container of floppy disks or moving your baby to the
next PC.
How does it works?
Quite simple. You habe to create a working mountfile using Cross-Dos. This
mountfile is listed below and the only thing you have to do, is to fix it for
your hostadapter. Okay here comes the file:
----- 8< ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/* Mountfile for MS-DOS formatted ZIP-Media
*
* Creation-Date: 21-Nov-95 22:52:21
*/
/* Device driver parameters.*/
Device = <name of your device-driver>
Unit = <5 or 6 - changeable via switch on the backside of the drive>
Flags = 0x00000000
/* Disk size parameters.*/
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 1
Lowcyl = 0
Highcyl = 196607
BufMemType = 0
Blocksize = 512
/* File system parameters.*/
Mask = 0x7FFFFFFC
Maxtransfer = 0x0001FE00
Reserved = 6
Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Stacksize = 2000
Priority = 5
Bootpri = -20
Globvec = -1
Buffers = 128
Dostype = 0x4d534800
Mount = 1
#
----------------------------------------------------------------------- >8 -----
A copy of this file can be found in the ZIP-directory included with this report.
The only thing you have to do, is to drag the "PCZIP"-icon and put it into the
"storage/dosdrivers" directory of your boot-partition. Now load your favourite
editor and perform the fixes I'm discribing now. First move the cursor into the
line starting with "device =". Exchange the following text with the name of your
hostadapters device-driver name. It you don't know exactly the name, please
check it out in the hostadapters manual. For example a A2091-user has to change
the line in "device = scsi.device".
The second step is to choose the right unit-number. Please move the cursor one
line down starting with "unit =". You can find the unit-switch on the back-side
of the drive. If the switch is pointing to number five for example, you have to
put in the following line "unit = 5". Now save the mountfile. That's all.
After mounting the file, you can put in a PC-formatted media und handle it like
any other device.