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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: miles on August 11, 2004, 12:05:10 AM

Title: ZIP 100 and FAT95 problems
Post by: miles on August 11, 2004, 12:05:10 AM

I have a IDE ZIP100 in my PC W2k boxen and a SCSI external ZIP100 connected to my Amiga3000 on the external SCSI port.

I have installed FAT95 from Aminet.

I can read/write PC ZIP disks on both computers (SneakerNet ;-) ).

But if I format a ZIP disk in W2k I can read/write fine on the PC but then I cannot see the files on the Amiga even though the disk shows 8Mb in use, the files are only 2.7Mb in size.

If I format the same disk in the Amiga using Format and selecting ZPC: the disk takes ages to format (couple of hours) I can read/write it on Amiga but the PC reports no disk in drive on one disk and the files show corrupt on the other disk.

PC formatted disks that I brough pre formatted work fine on both computers!

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Title: Re: ZIP 100 and FAT95 problems
Post by: Thomas on August 11, 2004, 08:48:49 AM

When formatting the disk on the PC you have to use FAT32. NTFS is not supported.

You cannot format the disk on an Amiga because for the PC to be able to read the disk, it has to be partitioned with a proper MBR. AFAIK there is no Amiga program which can do this.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: ZIP 100 and FAT95 problems
Post by: X-ray on September 12, 2004, 06:04:06 PM

@ Thomas

I have recently returned to the Amiga after a long absence and I found a tool called FormatZIP in my C: directory. I tried it on a ZIP that was originally formatted for Amiga, and it works. It writes the MBR. It is by Alexander Feigl.
I copied a whole lot of mods onto the disk, and besides the 8 x 3 file name truncation the files played fine on my PC.
Its very quick too.