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Steve, Yes, I have an Iomega ZIP drive. Since I have a GVP G-Force 030 board, I chose to use the GVP utility FaaastPrep. It did an automatic format for me and created a mountlist. I used CrossDOS Version 6 to mount another blank as device PCC: for a diskette that would be compatible with IBM clones. Since you can buy the blanks preformatted for either Macs or IBM clones, you don't need to format them for those machines. You DO have to format the ones that you want to use for Amiga disks. I believe I set the SCSI ID for 5 because my two Quantum harddrives have 2 and 6. Use HDToolbox or FaaastPrep to read the SCSI ID's first before installing the ZIP drive so you'll know how to set the SCSI switch on the back. (You CANNOT use the parallel ZIP drive! The parallel port for the Amiga is not enough like the IBM clone parallel port; I never considered it feasible.) On FaaastPrep I used the automatic installation. The Amiga disk has ZIP{95MB} as its volume name; the IBM disk, ZIP-100 as its volume name. Be sure to order blanks. Keep the disk that comes with the ZIP drive for its utilities that can be used on the bridgeboard or other IBM clone (or Mac if you got those). Although that is not a blow-by-blow instruction, it was this past summer when I set the ZIP up for use. Let us know what equipment you have and what utility you wish to use and what happened exactly to cause you problems. Here is a mountlist that works for me. 'Your mileage may vary.' /* Mountfile Entry Created: 16-May-95 00:25:05 * for full CrossDOS Disk. * * Disk Size: 96.0 Meg * Vendor and drive name: 005 IOMEGA ZIP 100 L.27 */ /* Disk size parameters.*/ Surfaces = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 1 Lowcyl = 0 Highcyl = 196607 BufMemType = 1 Blocksize = 512 /* Device driver parameters.*/ Device = gvpscsi.device Unit = 5 Flags = 0x00000000 /* File system parameters.*/ Mask = 0x00FFFFFE Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF Reserved = 0 Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem Stacksize = 2000 Priority = 5 Bootpri = -20 Globvec = -1 Buffers = 5 Dostype = 0x4d534800 Mount = 1 # Sincerely, 24-Oct-95 at 9:09p (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Perfessor Fearless from the Rocket City!