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Title: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: djkoelkast on March 08, 2010, 04:54:39 PM
Hi all,

I just bought me a Iomega SCSI ZIP drive (zip100) for in my A4000. I want to replace one of the 3,5" floppy drives with this ZIP drive for more storage on disks ;)
My Amiga has a CyberSCSI and HDToolBox for cyberscsi does see the ZIP disk, but I'd rather leave it in FAT so I can exchange stuff with my pc easily. (At the moment I upload stuff to my server, start Miami deluxe, start aweb and download it. Or burn a cd.) But ZIP is easier for all those fiddly small files, but I guess I might be needing a driver.

I searched Aminet but didn't find anything.
The goal is:
Amiga recognising the ZIP100 SCSI (internal) and be able to exchange files with the PC.

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: countzero on March 08, 2010, 05:04:01 PM
try crossdos or fat95.
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: djkoelkast on March 08, 2010, 05:08:15 PM
Quote from: countzero;546703
try crossdos or fat95.


Do I need a separate ZIP drive dossdriver or just one of these and it'll work?
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: save2600 on March 08, 2010, 05:44:25 PM
What OS are you running? 3.9 has the MS0 and MS1 icons in Devs:storage. I had thought those might be the drivers you need. Might be wrong though... but try placing them in Devs:DosDrivers and reboot of course. If you're using the Iomega in the 2nd drive bay, I'm thinking MS1 might be your ticket...
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: djkoelkast on March 08, 2010, 06:00:04 PM
It's the A4000 in my signature, so yeah, still good old OS 3.9 with bb2.
I'll try that then ;)
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: djkoelkast on March 08, 2010, 06:08:00 PM
This installation actually had ZIP and ZIPC in storage, mounted them: I had full ZIP and PC formatted ZIP support (without rebooting). AmigaOS keeps on amazing me everytime.

I've put them in DEVS:Dosdrivers and now it works everytime. Great!
Now if I only could find back my lost USB ZIP drive :P
Title: Re: Getting a SCSI Iomega ZIP drive to work
Post by: save2600 on March 08, 2010, 06:12:13 PM
Oh yeah, there's specific icons that say Zip too is what you're saying? Not by my machine right now. So the MS0 icons didn't do the trick? What are they for I wonder?