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- Short: Improved ZIP mount scripts (FFS,AFS,MAC,PC)
- Author: namek@freenet.hut.fi (Alberto M. Ordóñez)
- Uploader: namek@freenet.hut.fi (Alberto M. Ordóñez)
- Type: disk/misc
-
- This is a mount scripts collection for ZIP drives.
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- Features:
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- * More compatible FFS sctructure with all programs using it. (DiskSalv,
- QuarterBack Tools, Reorg, etc...)
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- * More available free space in AFS format.
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- * More compatible and fast formatable MAC & PC ZIP disks.
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- Why another mount scripts collection for ZIP drive? Well, I actually have a
- ZIP drive, and all mount scripts I've seen don't work properly.
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- The mount script from HiSoft for Amiga using FFS, have a correct number of
- sectors defined but some programs thinks that the number of sectors are
- greater than the real number of sectors, there aren't reserved blocks, and
- for this reason, there are problems with disk checking or optimization
- programs.
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- HDToolBox from OS 3.0+ recognices a ZIP disk like a hard disk with 2891
- cylinders, 68 sectors per block and 1 surface, this definitions are wrong,
- a ZIP disk have a total of 196608 sectors and with this configuration we
- have 68 * 2891 = 196588 sectors (a little less). ZIPMount_12.lha and
- ZipAFS.lha both from Aminet have the same definitions reported by HDToolBox,
- with ZipAFS there isn't big problems, but with ZIPMount we can't access to
- all possible information in a ZIP disk in MAC or PC format.
-
- Other mount scripts I have found for MAC or PC ZIP disks have definitions
- like 196608 cylinders with only a sector on each one, this will work without
- any problems but if you want to format a ZIP disk in MAC or PC format, this
- will take about 2 hours to complete.
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- Installation:
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- Copy the icons to your "SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers" folder, or to
- "DEVS:DOSDrivers" if you want the drive to automount, and modify the icon
- tooltype "DEVICE=YOURscsi.device" to show the name of your real scsi device
- name.
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- Definitions of the mount scripts:
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- ZIP disk = 196608 sectors
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- 196608 sectors / 2 sides = 98304 sector by side.
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- 98304 sectors by side / 64 blocks per track = 1536 cylinders
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- Why 64 blocks per track? Well this is because the greater number factor of 2
- to divide 98304 is 64.
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- Why the lowest possible number of cylinders? (1536) This is because the
- format command is faster with less cylinders.
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- Known bugs:
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- I can't format a ZIP disk in PC format using CrossDosFileSystem with any
- PC mount script. Is this a problem of CrossDos? If you can format a ZIP
- disk in PC format, please e-mail me.
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- P.D: I want a standard format for Amiga ZIP disks.
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