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- From: gyoung@central.co.nz (Glenn Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Backup to Zip Drive
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 04:26:55 GMT
- Organization: Internet Company of New Zealand
- Message-ID: <1627.6678T977T2234@central.co.nz>
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- On 06-Apr-96 04:24:27, Cyan Blade (cyblade@sd.cts.com) said about Re: Backup
- to Zip Drive:
-
- CB> I was having a problem myself with the ZIP drive on my GVP.
- CB> I was not the same error You report, but when I replaced the GVP
- CB> SCSI ROM, all the problems went away. I am not positive, but you
- CB> may need more memory to use Ami-Back. Although I have never noticed
- CB> it to be a memory hog, I have not used it with less than 8MB. The
- CB> symptoms that my ZIP showed with the GVP G-FORCE 030/40MHz SCSI-II
- CB> controller was a tendency to hang up when transfer large amounts
- CB> of data (as when I am backing up) to the ZIP drive. I installed
- CB> the GURU-ROM advertised on ACs Amiga magazine and have not
- CB> had any problems since.
- CB> Good Luck,
- CB> CB
-
- Thanks for the info, but I got an e-mail from Steve Bridges (thanks Steve!)
- saying I should try prepping the cartridge with 2 partitions, and this works.
-
- Actually I have been looking at the mountlists GVP Faastprep made for the 2
- partitions on the Zip cartridge, and the 'mountlist' info shown by ABTools for
- a 'standard' zip cartridge; they are very different, especially the cylinder
- nos, surfaces and blocks per track (the Zip drive is mounted by an icon in
- WBStartup created by Squirrel Zip Tools). Maybe this is affecting things?? I
- am thinking now that maybe I should mount the Zip drive via user-startup using
- a devs:mountlist entry as created by GVP Faastprep (which is what I use to
- mount the 2 partitions for backing-up).
-
- <sb>
- <tsb>[ Glenn Young ]
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- <sb>gyoung@central.co.nz
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