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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reading PC ZipDisks on Amiga3000 Toaster
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 05:03:40 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Steve T. (Cthulhu@Winternet.Com) wrote:
- : I have to transfer a large amount of image files to an Amiga 3000 for
- : use with the Video Toaster. I have the SCSI version of the Zip drive.
- : Is there a way for the Amiga to read a PC Zipdisk?
-
- Sure. Here's the mountlist I use: (note this requires OS 2.1 or
- higher OR Cross-DOS)
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- IZC:
- /* Mountfile Entry Created: 12-Jul-95 19:46:24
- * for full CrossDOS Disk.
- *
- * Disk Size: 95.9 Meg
- * Vendor and drive name: 006 IOMEGA ZIP 100
- */
- /* Disk size parameters.*/
- Surfaces = 2
- BlocksPerTrack = 32
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 3071
- BufMemType = 0
- Blocksize = 512
- /* Device driver parameters.*/
- Device = 2nd.scsi.device
- Unit = 5
- /* Flags = 0x00000000 */
- /* File system parameters.*/
- Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
- Reserved = 0
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Bootpri = -20
- Globvec = -1
- Buffers = 5
- Dostype = 0x4d534800
- Mount = 0
- #
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Paste this into DEVS:mountlist. Then add a "mount IZC:" to your
- S:user-startup (or, if you don't have that file, S:startup-sequence).
-
- Of course, you'll need to edit the "Device" and "Unit" fields above
- for the controller you use.
-
- Tom Kennedy
-