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- In article <684.6600T897T1033@primenet.com> kipster@primenet.com (Kip Pesuti) writes:
- > >I have an Iomega Zip drive which presently needs to be powered on at
- > >boot time in order to be made active. Is there anyway to activate the
- > >Zip so an icon appears on WorkBench, and Zip tools is functional,
- > >after the computer is booted? If you boot without the Zip drive
- > >powered on, the Amiga3000 does not recognize its presence.
- >
- > In your mountlist (DEVS:DOSDrivers/ZIP0:), change Activate=0 to Activate=1
- > Or it might be in the icon info. Change the tooltype ACTIVATE=0 to ACTIVATE=1
- > (for "Squirrel Zip Tools'" mountlist)
- >
- > >Thanks in advance for your comments.
- >
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- If that still doesn't work, then add a "diskchange zip:" command to your
- user-startup.
-
- My setup consists of all zip disks formatted with a single partition, all have a
- device name of ZIP: and have different label names. A zip mountlist file is in
- my devs/devices drawer and a diskchange ZIP: command is in my user-startup.
-
- Before I plugged in the Zip drive I opened up HardDrive Toolbox and made sure
- that there were no drives with a higher address and that both of my internal
- drives read "not changed". This insured that the "last drive in chain" bit had
- been set and that the Amiga would not search the SCSI chain past the internal
- drives. This way if there was not a disk in the ZIP the computer would not care.
-
- This configuration makes the ZIP as simple as a big floppy disk. On my 3000 my
- zip: file looks like this:
-
- Device = scsi.device
- UNIT = 6
- DosType = 0x444F5301
- Surfaces = 1
- Flags = 0
- BlocksPerTrack = 68
- Reserved = 2
- Interleave = 0
- LowCyl = 2
- HighCyl = 2890
- Buffers = 30
- BufMemType = 1
- MaxTransfer = 0xffffff
- Mask = 0x7ffffffe
-
- The only side effect of all of this is that you hard drive light blinks once
- every three or so to check the zip for disk changes.
-
- After a bit of experimenting I have decided that this is the cleanest way to add
- a zip drive to your Amiga. Good Luck!
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- Jim J.
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- Chronos@Gate.net
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