#HIP to ZIP DRIVES?
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Anyone know how to get a ZIP drive working on an A4000/040?
TIA
Zeddock Miller
get a scsi card,format it as part of your scsi chain.that's it.MAybe moreto it
than that though .None of the PC parralel port accessories work on the
amiga.except when using a pc emulation card.
No. I have a paralell Zip Drive. Any ideas?
Zeddock Miller
THere's a no to call to add scsi support to your zip drive from iomega,but i
think it would be better if you rexcchanged yours for a scsi version
<<i think it would be better if you rexcchanged yours for a scsi version >>
Thanx, but my 4000/040 dosn't even have a SCSI adapter. It is IDE.
So, again, do I have any options with the parellel adapter?
TIA
Zeddock Miller
I don't thonk you can.nobody has written a parallel port drivr to run it for
the amiga
Isn't a ZIP drive a PCMCIA CDROM? That would only work in the A1200 and A600;
no PCMCIA port in the A4000.
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Rick Green Via AP1.80
Nope, the Iomega's Zip drive is an external portable drive system. You can
purchase it for roughly $200 as a SCSI unit or a parallel unit. It's disks
supposedly hold 100MB of data and each sells for around $20.00 And if you get
the SCSI model, you can purchase an adapter to use it on a PC through the
parallel port.
// Christian – AutoPilot 1.80
\X/ Excuse me… is this thing on?
Oh, that ZIP drive. Yes, I have heard of it. They have them for sale at
Circuit City here for $190 (Parallel version).
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Rick Green Via AP1.80
Closest I've seen them for is $199 for SCSI or parallel, but first I would need
to get that DKB Ferret SCSI.
// Christian – AutoPilot 1.80
\X/ Excuse me… is this thing on?
I will get one when I can afford it. All of my computers, Amigas and PC's,
have SCSI adapters in them, so I won't worry about the parallel version.
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Rick Green Via AP1.80
No. It is a parallel adapter unit.
Zeddock Miller
If you have the SCSI version, you need a SCSI controller first. Then set the
address on the ZIP to other than 7 (usully the controller addre) and any other
addr already on the bus. Put in a disk, use the software that comes with your
controller to "format". Now, this may be tricky. DO NOT LOW LEVEL FORMAT.
This is true of all SCSI devices and doubley so for removable ones. your can
actually render the disk unusable if you insist on attempting to LL format. So
just do the normal Amiga type format. Reboot, stick disk in drive, and
assuming your controller handles removables correctly, voila! Icon for ZIP.
wmc – via Autopilot!
Wayne,
>> DO NOT LOW LEVEL FORMAT. doubley so for removable ones. your can actually
>>render the disk unusable
Just curious, I have a Syquest 88mg removable type drive unit..It appears I
learn the hard way on this one..I had boko (lots) of errors on one of the disks
and I tried to do a Low level format….completed unusable won't even do
anything now…
Question, I'm starting to get errors on other disk now, How do I fix them, or
do I just try and map them out with q-back or simaliar type program??
Lon
Lon,
What happens when you LL F is that some drives do "slip-sectoring" which
invloves sort of moving block addresses around. What happens is that the
LLFormat is just a tad different for each manufacturer and each model. So is
you get a non-slip sector program on a slip secotr disk or Vice Versa, you end
up mapping either critical parts of the disk as bad when they are not (like the
place the RDB has to be) or because the drive only allows adding to the bad
block list, and the slipping addresses are n ot handled right, you evnetually
map the entire disk as bad. This is because, to your software the same bad
block shows up with a different address each time you run the software due to
the sector slipping scheme on the controller.
I also found out the hard way but had a repair place locally that took me in
and showed me the docs, hex dumps, SCSI commands differences between
manuctureres. Othewise I'd still be blowing away hds with LL formats.
If you are getting increasing errors the best thing to do is to take the drive
to a repair place for cleaning and head aligment testing. Probably cost you
about $75. If you take the disks that are giving you the errors they might
also be able to salvage them as well as get and idea where your errors are
coming from.
wmc – via Autopilot!
Wayne, Thanks for the information on the removable drives..
If I don't already have about 10, 88meg disks I'd just replace the whole
thing,, glad to know that it maybe able to fix the problem…so far I only
totally ruined one disk by LL format, three others are starting to get errors
lately..
Lon
I got the Parallel unit. Can it be used?
Zeddock Miller