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- From: vjl@netcom.com (Vince LaMonica)
- Subject: ZIP and GVP4008? (was:Re: zip iomega drive to amiga.is it possible?)
- Message-ID: <vjlDKw8w4.6Mq@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: vjl@netcom.com (Vince LaMonica)
- Organization: A2HD/040/4F/2S/2C/540
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- References: <8B7B024.051300178F.uuout@pcb.mpoli.fi> <4ckqiu$3pv@zipper.zip.com.au> <4cs4po$9dd@zipper.zip.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 03:12:04 GMT
- Sender: vjl@netcom15.netcom.com
-
- Greg Hope (gregh@sci-fi-bbs.zip.com.au) really typed:
- { In article <4ckqiu$3pv@zipper.zip.com.au> gregh@sci-fi-bbs.zip.com.au (Greg Hope) writes:
- { > In article <8B7B024.051300178F.uuout@pcb.mpoli.fi> samu.toivonen@pcb.mpoli.fi (SAMU TOIVONEN) writes:
- { > > so, i was wondering on another day that would it be possible to plug-ig
- { > > zip iomega-drive to amiga.. if someone knows or have done if he could
- { > > inform me about this problem of mine.
- { >
- { > I am running a Zip on my A2000 right now. SCSI version of course.
- { >
- { > Dont try to run one on an A4008 card from GVP however.
-
- { Amen to that! I tried many ways to get my Zip to run on my A4008 with no luck.
- { I eventually got a HC+8 card and now run it almost 100% successfully on that.
- { The only thing that goes wrong even now is that when the HD becomes
- { unvalidated, I have to disconnect the Zip in order for the HD to revalidate
- { or the Zip hangs the system.
-
- Could you post more info on how/why a 4008 won't work with a ZIP
- drive? An HC+8 is supposed to be the same thing as a 4008 (but it
- has an older ROM). I have a 4008 and ZIP along with a PP&S040 board,
- and I can't seem to get the three of them to work together. I
- crashed my system a while back and bought the ZIP to backup my data
- before reformating my HD. I've taken the resistor packs off of my
- 4008 (so I *have* to have an external device attached to my system
- now), but have kept them on my Quantum 540 Maverik since it is
- attached via a 3cm internal cable (and is my only internal device).
-
- Would the GURU-ROM upgrade make the 4008 work with the ZIP? (btw,
- my problem is that I get CRC errors every 8K and random freeze ups
- *only* if I use any of the ram on the 040 board (it doesn't matter
- if I configure it as AutoConfig or as 32bit)).
-
- Thanks for any info you have...
-
-
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- vjl@netcom.com "What a long, strange trip it's been..."
- Vince LaMonica R.I.P. Jerry Garcia 1942-1995
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