CompuServe Messages

Gayle, Thanks very much for the advice and the file you sent.. They got me a bit further down the road but I'm still no nearer having a working Zip drive that I can trust. A quick description of my system.. it's an A2000 with a GVP "combo" card which has a 030 @40mhz on it and 16megs of fast Ram, plus it's the controller for my 540meg Quantum HD. I also have Emplant and was hoping to use the Zip drive on both the Amiga and Emplanted MAC by attaching it to the Emplants SCSI port.. Although I got the MAC part working correctly I couldn't get the Amiga to format the Zip drive this way. Following your lead, I connected the Zip drive to the SCSI port on the GVP card and used faaastprep to format the drive, this time I had more luck and it low level formatted properly and dos formatted as you would expect, the only difference to your set-up was that faaaastprep called the zip drive "DH0A". All well and good so far.. an icon appears when a disk is inserted, and goes away when removed, open the icon and I get an empty window with "95 megs empty" reported.. Here's the problem.. I can copy small files to it, but should I try to copy anything large (ie 1Meg..) the Amigas HD spins continuously and the Zip drives light goes out.. the system locks and I have to re-boot, when rebooted the Zip-drive is corrupt and I have to re-format. I tried giving the Zip drive more buffers, but this didn't help, (Although I'm convinced it worked for longer before it crashed..) Any ideas!? <g> Steve