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#IOmega Floptical Drive

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#125382From: Axel HorlbeckDec 17, 1993 10:38 AM

Hi there … I just bought a Iomega Floptical Floppy drive (the one where you can put 20 Megs on a single 3.5" Floppy). But now i have to realize that it refuses to work on my Amiga2000 (Kick 2.04 WB 2.1) with a GOLEM SCSI adapter.(I tried it with NEXUS too.. No help there). The funny thing is, that the drive does not work like a Harddrive.. I am able to mount it like a Floppy drive with crossdoss.filesystem and i'm able to read PC floppys, but i CAN'T write to the floppy. Does anybody now a solution ?? A supplier where i can get drivers for the drive ? Thanks very much from Germany, Axel

#125390From: Alan K. AdamsonDec 17, 1993 1:19 PM

Hi, I have the same drive hooked up to a 4000 with fastlane and it works fine. I didn't even have to create a mountlist entry for it. You will need to HDToolbox each of the floptical floppies. Alan Adamson aadamson@symantec.com [72370,164]

#125546From: Axel HorlbeckDec 19, 1993 12:20 PM

Hi Alan Thanks but HDToolbox won`t work (get error Msg 29 !!!) See ya Axel from Germany

#125542From: Alexander G. M. SmithDec 19, 1993 11:13 AM

There is a little program called INSITE.LHA which write enables Floptical drives that are from the IBM world. You just have to run it at startup time to make the drive work (it resets some of the drive's parameters). Other Amiga versions of the Floptical drive have a different ROM that has the correct SCSI parameters for the Amiga as initial values. I thought someone said they would upload it here, but if it isn't available, I can upload it. – Alex

#125548From: Axel HorlbeckDec 19, 1993 12:26 PM

Hi Alex !! I would apreciate it very much if you could upload it for me… Another thing, what kind of software do you use to acess Compuserve ?? I`m still working with a Terminal proggy. Thanks Axel from Hamburg Germany

#126040From: Alexander G. M. SmithDec 23, 1993 9:48 PM

>I would apreciate it very much if you could upload it for me… Oops, I can't find the Insite Floptical drive fixing software, must have deleted it (I have a drive with the DMI ROM so it starts up in the correct mode). Paul Wright (see message 125576) said he will be uploading it here. If it doesn't show up in a few days, let me know and I'll try and find it again on our local BBSs. >Another thing, what kind of software do you use to acess >Compuserve ?? I`m still working with a Terminal proggy. I'm using a terminal program; Terminus. If you want a nice user interface to CompuServe, there's probably a message area or two that discusses ones which are available. You could also ask for comments from people who advertise in their signature line that they use one. – Alex

#125576From: Paul WrightDec 19, 1993 5:11 PM

I'm the one who said I would upload it and have failed to do so. I guess I will give it a shot and if you have already uploaded it then CIS should reject it. Axel, you are experiencing the exact problems I had (in AmigaDOS, I haven't tried it under CrossDOS yet) and insite.lha is the solution. It unlocks the firmware write protection. Why is it firmware write protected? Darned if I know! —–Paul—–

#126409From: Axel HorlbeckDec 29, 1993 6:34 PM

Hi there … Thanks very much !!! It worked !!!!! My Drive is runnig … And to my surprise it's very fast….. Did anyone ever try to work with regular Floppys (880K) or HD Floppy… How does it work ??? Thanks very much Axel from Germany

#125569From: Ron LegroDec 19, 1993 4:42 PM

What hard drive prep software do you use with your Golem card? You must use that software with the floptical to format the diskettes before initial use. You format them as removeable SCSI hard drives. If the adapter doesn't support autodiskchange, you must thereafter use the Diskchange command in AmigaDOS whenever you insert a disk in the floptical drive.