Making Jaz Hard Drive Work?

[rkauer]

motrucker wrote:

He STILL needs the ROM upgrade! No "driver" is going to work around that problem!

I know that! Reading carefully that manual he will know, too.

[MrZammler]

Sorry to hijack this thread, just a question:

Does the jaz work as a removable drive or as a fixed (or both)? Is there a dos driver that takes care of removing and inserting disks on the fly?

Can you boot from a Jaz drive without a dos driver?

(Ok, that was 2 questions...) :-D

[MaxFordham]

Hi, guys,

Thanks for your responses, all of you. I'll try those suggestions.

Yes, Mr. Zammler, the Jaz drive--even in my current configuration, without these drivers and the ROM upgrade--will work as a removable-disk hard drive like it's supposed to (since it is one)--that is, that the computer will recognize when you eject the disk and reinsert it or put another one in. And yes, even with my problems, I can get this drive to boot the OS (fun!) without the drivers they're talking about. But I think what these guys are talking about is supposed to help my partially-working Amiga Jaz drive become a completely-working Amiga Jaz drive.

I've been baffled as to why I can sometimes format the disk and sometimes not, and then it will sometimes allow stuff to get copied to it just fine and then sometimes not (claiming to be unvalidated), so hopefully these fixes the others are mentioning really will work (of course--who wouldn't hope that?). We'll see...

Mike

[MaxFordham]

Hey, guys,

I tried to find this GVP SCSI ROM at those 2 sites, and I'm not sure how to search for it that'd give me the best results (because so far nothing comes up). Well, I type in things like "GVP SCSI ROM 4.15" and different combos of those terms, but nothing came up. Well, am I using the right search terms (and there just happens not to be anything of this available right now), or are there better terms that I should be using?

Thanks,
Mike

[rkauer]

Did you tryed www.ebay.com (or other ebay from where you live) for "Amiga GVP ROM" ?

[gertsy]

Heres an idea.  Just get a 1-2GB fixed scsi drive off ebay and a scsi CD ROM burner and drop the Jazz drive.  I have a 1 GB JAZZ drive here too but Ive never tried to get it working on my Ami 2000 as I went for a CD Rom burner. MakeCD for the Amiga is free now and CDs are less than 50c each.

Just an option   :-)

[motrucker]

gertsy wrote:
Heres an idea.  Just get a 1-2GB fixed scsi drive off ebay and a scsi CD ROM burner and drop the Jazz drive.  I have a 1 GB JAZZ drive here too but Ive never tried to get it working on my Ami 2000 as I went for a CD Rom burner. MakeCD for the Amiga is free now and CDs are less than 50c each.

Just an option   :-)

Truly a good idea. I still have a sysquest EZ 135, but it is rarely used thank's to the CD-R/RW.

[motrucker]

Here is an option that will work. (maybe)
http://babel.org/amiga/
You can get the Guru ROM image for the GVP. You need to burn this to an Eprom though.......