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Title: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: carvedeye on October 13, 2012, 10:53:46 PM

Hi all just curious are the IDE Zip drives compatible with the amiga? or is it just the scsi drives?

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: Iggy on October 14, 2012, 04:27:52 AM

Quote from: carvedeye;711320

Hi all just curious are the IDE Zip drives compatible with the amiga? or is it just the scsi drives?

Anyone that's interested in trying one out?
Send me the postage for a small Priority Mail box and you can have an IDE Zip100 drive.

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: Azryl on October 14, 2012, 06:13:45 AM

Yes the internal IDE zip100 drive works when attached to the 1200 motherboard connector. I used IDEfix software and a mountlist.

Az

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: danbeaver on October 14, 2012, 06:30:31 AM

The Amiga's IDE is quite robust.  It could use a better buffer, and the ATAPI software came later (mostly from others); but it has handled every device I've attached to it.

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: pyrre on October 14, 2012, 12:18:13 PM

Quote from: danbeaver;711370

The Amiga's IDE is quite robust.  It could use a better buffer, and the ATAPI software came later (mostly from others); but it has handled every device I've attached to it.

Have you tried booting from an ide zip drive?

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: Thomas on October 14, 2012, 01:24:53 PM

Quote from: pyrre;711394

Have you tried booting from an ide zip drive?

You can't. As he said, ATAPI sofware came later. The ROM driver does not support ATAPI drives and therefore you cannot boot from ZIP.

That said, you can boot from floppy or HDD, make the IDEfix driver resident and after that you can boot from ZIP, too. But not at power-on time.

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: pyrre on October 14, 2012, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Thomas;711401

You can't. As he said, ATAPI sofware came later. The ROM driver does not support ATAPI drives and therefore you cannot boot from ZIP.

That said, you can boot from floppy or HDD, make the IDEfix driver resident and after that you can boot from ZIP, too. But not at power-on time.

custom made kickstart then....

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: specfreak on November 02, 2012, 08:34:36 PM

@OP, yep the Panasonic ZIP is also compatible.  I had a Iomega SCSI external via my Blizzard then just used an internal IDE in my A1200 Power Tower setup:

http://newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/MyAmiga/MyAmiga.html

I'm now toying with CF cards to replace my HDs but with mixed results unfortunately.
Just been reading some more about IDE-Fix and I'm unsure if there's a solution.

Fun times again with my Miggy.... might even try OS 4.1 when I have some spare pounds.

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: danbeaver on November 05, 2012, 03:19:47 AM

If you have the hardware, then you really should try OS 4.1 as it is a real step forward in Amiga-style operating system. Very stable and easy to configure; the way all OS's should be but never are it seems

Title: Re: Iomega Zip Drive IDE connection?
Post by: psxphill on November 05, 2012, 08:22:07 AM

Quote from: Thomas;711401

You can't. As he said, ATAPI sofware came later. The ROM driver does not support ATAPI drives and therefore you cannot boot from ZIP.

Not all IDE Zip drives are ATAPI
 
http://pw2.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/atapi.html
 
Although I don't know if you can boot from the IDE ones either.