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Hmmm, jon m (jonathan@jona.demon.co.uk) wrote:

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> : >Don't you need some special amiga drivers to use it though?
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> : No, plugs into any scsi interface, so you'll allready have scsi.device
> : software. If you buy the Zip drive from HiSoft they supply s/w utils
> : for use with their drives. Not sure exactly what you get for the extra
> : 50 quid or so. I am aware that the s/w enables you to write protect the
> : disks. I'm not paying 50 quid above the odds for the s/w !
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> Anyone know what this s/w from Hisfoft does?
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> How do you format the disks on these things aswell.


    I bought my Zip drive from HiSoft -- what's this extra 50 quid
    that was mentioned ?  Could I have got it cheaper ?

    The software I did get includes a variety of mountlist
    (devs/dosdriver) files to get the drive working, a commodity
    program allowing you to enable or disable write protection of a
    cartridge and set passwords if you so wish.

    There are also some files relating to the squirrel interface,
    but I'm using a GVP SCSI card so I didn't need them.

    A formatting utility was also included which works from a simple
    GUI but I'm quite happy using the good old format command from
    AmigaDOS which seems to work fine.

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Keith Suddick - kts@mithril.demon.co.uk