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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jumpship on November 26, 2002, 09:25:26 PM

Title: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: jumpship on November 26, 2002, 09:25:26 PM

I know that you can add a 100Meg zip drive to the Amiga (and therfore I assume the AmigaONE) but does anyone know if the same things will work for the 250Mb and 750Mb versions?

Thanks

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: amigau on November 26, 2002, 09:32:25 PM

I have never tried it, but may be worth checking the old 'Zip drives on the amiga' site archive we have. . .

http://www.amigau.com/sitearchives.htm

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Sidewinder on November 26, 2002, 09:43:23 PM

I have a SCSI Zip250 hooked up to my A4000T and it works fine.  Basically the Amiga sees it as a 100MB or 250MB hard drive depending on the disk.

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Kermito on November 26, 2002, 10:03:21 PM

@jumpship

maybe This (http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2160.html) could help  :-)

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Nick on November 26, 2002, 10:37:19 PM

I have an external SCSI Zip250 and it works perfectly fine. They are damn good for me.

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Darrin on November 26, 2002, 11:12:15 PM

Zip250 drivers are available on Aminet.

I use a Castlewood 2.2gb Orb drive (about the size of a Zip drive, but takes 2.2 Gb disks) with my A1200 and A3000.  No special drivers needed - just treat it as a SCSI hard drive.  It even came with a SCSI to USB adapter so I can use it on my desktop PC's and laptop too.

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: jumpship on November 26, 2002, 11:23:12 PM

thanks for all the info! Does anyone know how easy it is to connect an IDE zip drive up to an Amiga? Does it get treated like a normal hardrive?

I ask because the IDE version is alot eiaser to get hold of (not to mention cheaper) then the SCSI

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Rob on November 27, 2002, 12:12:03 AM

I used a IDE Zip 100 for years then my brother nicked it for his PC
just plug it in and go.
I preffered to use mountlist and treat it more like a floppy than a
hardrive.  You can use crossdos with it this way so can swap data with
Windows or Mac.

I think that there are some decent mountlists included with OS3.9.

Title: Re: Zip drives on the amiga?
Post by: Tesral on November 27, 2002, 09:01:55 AM

Quote

Rob wrote:
I used a IDE Zip 100 for years then my brother nicked it for his PC just plug it in and go.

Pretty much the case.  If it is SCSI you are good to go.  I have an old faithful zip 100 external bought when the things were new, and it still is plugging along.  I currently have an internal SCSI in the SCSI tower, liberated from the PCs.  The only SCSI device I could not get to work was a Mustek scanner.