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[1] URGENT - How to set up a zip drive disk so it will work on
Organization: Toronto Free-Net
Date: Tue Mar 19 13:51:51 CST 1996
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both amiga and MAc
Reply-To: ax188@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Jesse Logan)
References: Organization: Toronto Free-Net Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
I you know of any methods let me know asap. this is fairly important as
my files are bigger that  one HD floppy.
 
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Okay, looks good on my system, the icon pops in and out of my workbenck as
the Zip pops in and out of the drive... cool!  ;)
 
Here's my Mountlist...
**********************************************
 
/* Device Mountlist - *Originally* Created by Ami-Back Tools 
 *                                  Modified by Doug Peters
 *
 * Amiga ZIP-Disk Mountlist
 */
 
Priority = 10
	Flags = 0x0
	Surfaces = 1
	BlocksPerTrack = 68
	Reserved = 2
    PreAlloc = 0
	Interleave = 0
	LowCyl = 2
    HighCyl = 2890
    Buffers = 30
	BufMemType = 0
	BlockSize = 512
	MaxTransfer = 0xFFFFFF
	Mask = 0x7FFFFFFE
	GlobVec = 0
    BootPri = 0
	DOSType = 0x444F5303
 

/* The Device and Unit fields are controlled 
 * by tooltypes in the icon.
 *
 * ZIP:  Device = scsi.device
 *       Unit   = 5
 */
 
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I don't think it's neccessary, but I also read the drive's configuration,
saved it, and quit (don't partition it! - Don't even go in there!!!).
 
The icon tooltypes looks like this:
************************************************
 
DEVICE=scsi.device
UNIT=5                  (-Change to 6 if neccessary)
ACTIVATE=1
DONOTWAIT
 
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Use the icon that comes with the PD ZipMount available on Aminet.
Or any DosDriver Icon, I suppose.
 
Throw the McZip and Zip Mountlists and thier icons into
Devs:DOSDrivers and reboot and go rock and roll!
 
If you take off the jumper for the SCSI ID 5, change the
Mountlist's Icon to read "Unit=6".
 
a word about the squirrel:
 
SZIPTools
qZIPTools
uZIPTools
iZIPTools
rZIPTools
rZIPTools
eZIPTools
lZIPTools
 
...is an absolute piece of shit.  A shame, since oregon Research USUALLY
puts out top-dog stuff.  It doesn't even work with 3.1, crashed my system
3 times when installing WHILE writting to the disk.
 
The only thing that it does that my mountlist (or anyone's mountlist)
doesn't do is write/read (un)protect ZipDisks.  Whoopie.  it will crash 
Shapeshifter BIG TIME (corrupts the system folder) if you forget to shut 
it off before booting into ShapeShifter.
 
To get it to work with ShapeShifter, you will probably need a scsi 
interface (controller card) with the full SCSI implementation, (like the 
GVP with GURU ROM or a 3000(T)) -OR a free Device Disk.  Install the Iomega 
extension in (where else...) "system folder/extensions", shutdown (*I* 
have to reboot then, too, because of the Mac memory management problem, and 
me only having 14MBs to play with).  

Then when restarting ShapeShifter, go into SCSI from the main config window 
and check ID 5.  Make sure you use the correct scsi.device (if not 
listed) save, start and use the ZipTools to write/read (un)protect, etc.
If your system has trouble booting with the Iomega extension, remove it
and use the Guest tool.... you will need to click on it when you want to 
access a McZipDisk.  I don't know if the Guest toll will work with
write/read (un)protect, though.
 
You need CrossMac to read Mac disks.  To read PCDisks, again, get CrossDOS
6!!!  CrossDOS is much better in this version.  Use the PCZip MountList in
ZipMount.lha on Aminet.
 
-Doug Peters		depeters@inst.augie.edu

P.S.
Squirrel ZipTools also seems to want to format the disks to 96 MBs.  Mine 
and all other versions I have seen formats it to 95MBs, and Shapeshifter 
formats to 94.x MBs, so that may be another part of the problem.  But 
that is one in a long list of probs, I can't believe that anyone would 
put that out commercially.  It won't even format a ZipDisk under 3.1!!!

YUCK!!!

-dp