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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using PC Zip Disks, the truth
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:31:31 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
- Message-ID: <4f5etj$och@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
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- Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- : Another thing is that I cannot seem to
- : format MS-DOS ZIP disks, no matter what I try (it fails with "disk not
- : validated").
-
- I think I see the problem. Your disk geometry is 1 sector to big.
- (Which won't be noticed for day-to-day operation, but will fail if you
- fill up the disk or try to format (although a "format QUICK" should
- work...) )
-
- : Here's something that should work (works for me under Workbench 3.0):
-
- : ZIP_PC:
- : Surfaces = 1
- : BlocksPerTrack = 1
- : Lowcyl = 0
- : Highcyl = 196608
- ^^^^^^ change this to 196607 and you should be ok.
- (the zip has 196608 scetors total, numbered from
- 0 to 196607)
- : BufMemType = 5
- : Blocksize = 512
- : Device = <name or your scsi device>
- : Unit = 5 or 6
- : Flags = 0x00000000
- : Mask = 0x7FFFFFFE
- : Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
- : Reserved = 0
- : Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- : Stacksize = 2000
- : Priority = 5
- : Buffers = 30
- : Dostype = 0x4d534800
- : Mount = 1
- : #
-
- Tom Kennedy
-