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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip and DataFlyer+
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 23:22:31 GMT
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- On 27-Feb-96 12:27:36, John Pat Corigliano was reported to have said:
- >Does anyone use a Zip drive with an Expansion Systems DataFlyer
- >SCSI controller? I am having some problems...
-
- In trying to use my Zip drive on my wife's A4000 with the DataFlyer 4000SX,
- we also had problems. (And we'll toss this POS DataFlyer in the trash once
- we find a proper replacement that correctly supports RDBs, autobooting,
- etc..)
-
- The only way we finally got it to work was to use RDPrep to partition and
- install a RDB on the Zip disks and then use SCSIMounter to mount them.
-
- The crap DataFlyer software was of no use and as you discovered, using
- HDToolbox with the DataFlyer didn't work.
-
- >Also, I tried SCSIMounter, and it sees the Zip and also a CD that I
- >have on the DataFlyer:
- > Units 1-4 = <error reading device>
- > 5 IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.0 97 M ready
- > 6 NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:501 2.3 509 M ready
- >But if I try to mount the Zip, I get "Error: Invalid Rigid Disk Block".
-
- Unless you put a RDB on the disk, it doesn't have one. Mounting it with a
- mountlist doesn't do this. Use RDPrep to put a RDB on each Zip disk and
- then you can use SCSIMounter.
-
- >Lastly, HDBackup doesn't work with the Zip either
-
- I have no idea if it should work. I always just "copy foo: zip: clone all"
- when I want to backup to a Zip.
-
- Phil
-
- pwright@crash.cts.com
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