AmigaActive (538/1728)

From:emptystate
Date:11 Jun 2001 at 09:41:56
Subject:Re: still no zip disk joy

--- In amigactive@y..., myamiga@y... wrote:
>
> some of you people gave me some mountlists earlier.
>
> do i have to format the disks on the amiga using them? i got some
> that where pre-formated [packet said ibm formatted] but these
> mountlists once setup couldnt read them.

If you were using a mountlist for Crossdos or fat95 filesystems
then you do not need to format the disk to use it.

> is it possible to create a mountlist that`ll read pre-formatted zip
> disks?

See above answer (yes).

> havent tried formating them on the amiga then using on pc yet as my
> contact with a pc isnt that regular [and wont be till i have this
> zip thing figured] so i`m asking here first.

If you plan to use your Zip disk on both systems, even infrequently
on the PC, then you may as well stick with the PC filesystem.
I haven't had any joy formatting a Zip disk on an Amiga to use with
a PC and I recall other people mentioning the same problem: don't
format it on an Amiga for MSDOS.

You said you couldn't read your Zip disk-
are you getting an icon on your workbench ?
does the drive spin up briefly after you insert the disk ?

Remind us how the drive is connected e.g. 4 way IDE splitter,
accelerator SCSI bus etc and also which filesystem are you using in
your mountlist (the line that says FileSystem = L:<something>).

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