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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: gdanko on December 09, 2005, 03:05:24 PM

Title: Jaz drive on an Amiga???
Post by: gdanko on December 09, 2005, 03:05:24 PM

I would like to put all the hardware drivers and other software I use for setting up my Amigas on a ZIP or JAZ drive. This way, I can plug in the Jaz and not have to to do the floppy shuffle. WIll the Amiga recognize the SCSI ZIP/JAZ drives without some special software?

Title: Re: Jaz drive on an Amiga???
Post by: Thomas on December 09, 2005, 03:17:01 PM

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WIll the Amiga recognize the SCSI ZIP/JAZ drives without some special software?

The drive, yes, but the disks, no. If you want to share files with a PC you have to install FAT95 on the Amiga or at least create a CrossDOS mountfile for the drive.

Only if the disks are partitioned with HDToolbox and formatted using FFS, they will be recognised automatically. But then the disks are not readable by the PC.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Jaz drive on an Amiga???
Post by: patrik on December 09, 2005, 03:26:04 PM

@Thomas:

If they are partitioned and formatted on the Amiga, couldnt you use WinUAE to read them on the pc?


/Patrik

Title: Re: Jaz drive on an Amiga???
Post by: Thomas on December 09, 2005, 05:51:41 PM

Yes, you can. You can even create a bootable partion and install an entire OS3.9 with all your hardware drivers on it. So you can have an emergency boot disk without the need of the slow and limited floppy + CD combination.

Bye,
Thomas