When you say inside I assume you have a tower. I have one of these drives in store somewhere, quite fascinating. My ZIP on the other hand is on an SCSI kit off the Blizzard. I prefer the SCSI.
Anywhoo.... There was an MO group for the Amiga and you might read through if you haven't already. They talk of editing the mount files. May help.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amiga-mo/conversations/messages?messageStartId=200&archiveSearch=true
Be interested to know if you can get it running. Things don't last by the way, so don't be too angry with yourself. Dust yourself down and start over.
Almost five years after... turns out the MO drive works perfectly.
It seems everything was related to power supply issues. I have a desktop A1200, not a towerized one, but I used an HTPC case because I needed a couple 5 1/4 bays for a CD-ROM drive and a ZIP or MO drive; both are ATAPI compliant. I used the standard ATX power supply inside the PC case with one of these adaptadors from Ian Stedman. Flat data cable for both devices was connected phisically to my Amiga 1200 through an external IDE connector I have on the left side of my miggy (my A1200 came with this mod when I bought it about 10 years ago).
I always had problems when booting up my Amiga. Sometimes it was necessary to make three or more attempts to get it running because it did not power up properly. This summer I acquired a brand new power supply at Amigastore.eu and problems with these "false bootings" disappeared.
So, yesterday and all of a sudden -I had totally forgotten it- I found the Fujitsu ATAPI MO drive in a drawer and attached it to my Amiga just to try. It seemed to "spin" correctly when powered up and allowed the insertion of a 230 Mb MO disk. Drive was configured as slave and both HDToolbox and my Elbox Fasta ATA preferences program detected it ...
I edited the PC230 mount file (bundled with
Amiga_MO_FAQ) to use scsi.device and configured tooltypes to set unit = 3 (slave at secondary channel) and that's it... everything is running now. After a soft reset, a NDOS icon showed up on the workbench desktop and I just selected it and formatted the disk using the Icons --> Format disk menu option.
So yes, it is perfectly possible to use an ATAPI MO device with a standard A1200 although I think it should be necessary to have an IDEFix, FastATA or similar controller which allows the attaching of 3.5" devices because the standard IDE port is intended for 2.5" drives.
Kind regards,
Manel (beltrixx)