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- From: kipster@primenet.com (Kip Pesuti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip and DataFlyer+
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 01:40:00 -0700
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-
- >Does anyone use a Zip drive with an Expansion Systems DataFlyer
- >SCSI controller? I am having some problems...
-
- >I can mount it (I used a PC MountList from Aminet and commented
- >out the FileSystem and DosType lines). However, HDToolBox does
- >not recognize the drive - as a matter of fact, when I run HDToolBox
- >on the "ExpSys.device" it shows two harddisks that don't exist???
-
- >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".
-
- >Lastly, HDBackup doesn't work with the Zip either - if I mount the Zip
- >from a MountList, and add the ToolType "DEV=ZIP:", when I try to
- >backup anything it just continually puts up a requester saying, "Load
- >volume 1 into ZIP:".
-
- >Any help would be appreciated :)
-
- Hi, John!
-
- Yes, I use the DataFlyer 4000SX. And I'm using RDPrep with it to configure
- the "rigid disk block" of the Zip disks, thus avoiding a mountlist.
- This way I just use the "Mount" command in my User-Startup file:
-
- C:Mount >NIL: ZIP0:
-
- You can get it from Aminet.
-
- Don't forget to use CheckDC, (from the DataFlyer install disk).
- Put it in C:. And Put the following in you're Startup-Sequence:
-
- run C:CheckDC ZIP0: <or whatever you mount you're Zip disk as>
-
- I mention this because, though the manual says to put it before LoadWB, that
- only caused my machine to hang. But when I put it after "C:LoadWB" and before
- "EndCLI >NIL:", and give it a ">NIL:", everything is fine. For example:
-
- C:CheckDC >NIL: ZIP0:
-
- I don't know if leaving the "run" command off matters. It works. My Amiga
- knows when a Zip disk is changed. :)
-
- >TIA,
- >--
- >John Corigliano jcorig@strauss.udel.edu
- >Computer and Information Science University of Delaware
- >--
- >"Never drive a car when you're dead." - Tom Waits
-
-
- God bless you!
- (and your Amiga)
- -Kip
-
-