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- From: dmaxwell@freenet.vcu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip Drive Geometry
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 11:14:31 -0500
- Organization: Central Virginia's Free-Net
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4hcgh7$lbf@freenet.vcu.edu>
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-
- Here are ZIP drive mountlists for both Amiga and IBM disks.
- N.B.,call the Amiga ZIP "ZIP" and the IBM ZIP "ZIPC". If you
- don't use "ZIPC" CrossDos won't work with it.
-
-
-
- /* Mountfile for Amiga ZIP */
-
- Device = gvpscsi.device
- FileSystem = L:FastfileSystem
- Unit = 005
- Flags = 0
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 32
- Reserved = 2
- Interleave = 0
- LowCyl = 2
- HighCyl = 6143
- Buffers = 32
- GlobVec = -1
- BufMemType = 0 Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- MaxTransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
- Mount = 1
- DosType = 0x444F5301
- StackSize = 4000
- #
-
-
-
-
- /* Mountfile Entry Created: 11-Dec-95 22:45:33
- * for full CrossDOS Disk.
- *
- * Disk Size: 96.0 Meg
- * Vendor and drive name: 005 IOMEGA ZIP 100 R.41HH
- */
- /* Disk size parameters.*/
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 1
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 196607
- BufMemType = 1
- Blocksize = 512
- /* Device driver parameters.*/
- Device = gvpscsi.device
- Unit = 5
- Flags = 0x00000000
- /* File system parameters.*/
- Mask = 0x7FFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
- Reserved = 6
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Bootpri = -20
- Globvec = -1
- Buffers = 5
- Dostype = 0x4d534800
- Mount = 1
- #
-
-
- Be sure to include the "#" character that terminates the
- mountlist.
-
- --Don
-
- >
- > RE: ZIP DRIVE GEOMETRY
- >
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- > Post a followup article to newsgroup(s)
- > From: rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis)
- > Send e-mail reply to: Robert Davis
- > Date: 24 Feb 1996 12:43:24 -0700
- > Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
- >
- >devans@ccubb.com (David Evans) writes:
- >
- >>Does anyone know the geometry of a ZIP disc? I seem to have the wrong l
- >yout
- >>and format doesn't work...
- >=====
- >Someone posted in this echo a few weeks ago.
- >Use 196608 sectors.
- >Since i don't have a ZIP, I can't confirm it ;-]
- >
- >--
- >rdavis@nyx.net Robert (Bob) Davis
- > Amateur Radio K0FPC
- > Emporia, Kansas
- --
- %%%%%%%%%%% less is more %%%%%%%%%%
- %%%%% Don Maxwell, Richmond, VA %%%%%
- %%%%%%%%% beauty is truth %%%%%%%%%
-