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- From: wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: PC File system on Zip
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:53:42 GMT
- Organization: The Ohio State University
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- I just bought a zip drive and I love it. It is great for storing lots of data.
- I do have a question. I can use the zip drive by mounting it as a scsi device
- and then format using cli. This works without much problem. I also hook it up
- to a powermac and using the software that comes with the drive it works like a
- charm. I tried putting a PC formatted disk in the Mac zip and voila it
- recognized it as a PC Zip (using access PC). Then it dawned on me hey if I can
- get the amiga to recognize the PC disks then I can tranfer files (mainly pics)
- between my amiga and the Mac via PC format. I tried to get my Amiga to read the
- drive by duping the mountlist for the zip and ading crossdos filesystem and
- changing the dostype to 0x4d534800 (MSH0) just as I hav eon one of my HD
- partitions that is MSD formatted but it didn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
-
- Also are there any PD ZipTools?
-
- Thanx in advance!!!!
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- Bill Bennett Dept of Radiology The Ohio State University
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