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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,de.comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems formatting ZIP
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,de.comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:11:19 GMT
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- Henning 'Faroul' Peters (Faroul@beyond.hb.north.de) wrote:
- : Hi!
- : I just bought an iomega-zip, but trying to format a disk happily crashes my
- : SCSI-Controller :-(
- : It starts formatting, but stops at about track 100 (I reached 580 once...),
- : the controller hangs (LED bright) and nothing works anymore (only reset
- : helps).
- : (The problem with that controller-hangup is known to me, it sometimes
- : simply "refuses" to work on, but not as often and after that short time.)
-
- You have a known controller problem and you think the ZIP is the cause of
- the problem? Your logic escapes me. You need to get your controller
- fixed.
-
- : The mountlist-entry I use:
- :
- : /* ZIP-Laufwerk - Amiga */
- : ZIP: Priority = 10
- : Flags = 0
- : Surfaces = 1
- : BlocksPerTrack = 68
- : Reserved = 0
- : PreAlloc = 0
- : Interleave = 0
- : LowCyl = 0
- : HighCyl = 2890
- : Stacksize = 4096
- : Buffers = 30
- : BufMemType = 0
- : MaxTransfer = 0xFFFFFF
- : Mask = 0xFFFFFE
- : GlobVec = -1
- : BootPri = 0
- : FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
- : Device = Nexus.device
- : Unit = 5
- : #
-
- I've never messed with my mountlist so I can't offer suggestions here.
-
- :
- : and on Shell, I do
- :
- : mount zip:
- : format drive zip: name Faroul-ZIP noicons ffs
- :
- : (on both Kick 1.3 and 3.1) Any help?
- :
- Last time I formatted a ZIP drive, I started out with my generic
- hard-drive tools. Checked to see what was out there, then partitioned the
- new disk. It wanted to set up two partitions, I insisted on only one.
- Partitioning done, I mounted the disk then, from the WorkBench, told it
- to format the drive. No problems, if you don't count the time it took to
- finish the job.
-
- I have an A3000/16 with WB 2.1 on it. The Zip drive is reasonably fast,
- for a removable media, and has given me no problems. Don't try to fit
- yours to your busted controller, get the controller fixed.
-