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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mistermsk on February 15, 2013, 11:24:39 PM

Title: Zip Drive Amiga to PC transfer
Post by: mistermsk on February 15, 2013, 11:24:39 PM

Hi All,

 I have a Zip100 SCSI connected to my Amiga 2000HD machine. I also have a USB ZIP100 connected to my Windows XP laptop. I had a PC formatted disk in the Amiga and it did not recognize it. I formatted with GVP Tools and when I reboot I see it on my Amiga 2000HD desktop. So, I move the disk over to the Windows XP laptop and it does not recognize it. Is there any way I could see the disk on the Amiga and the PC? Will an Amiga emulator work or is there a driver I could use on the Amiga to let me read Amiga disks?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Zip Drive Amiga to PC transfer
Post by: LoadWB on February 16, 2013, 04:05:42 AM

Somewhere I got a ZPC: device which uses fat95 and allows the Amiga to see Windows-formatted Zip disks just fine.

What you did with GVP tools was create an Amiga filesystem in an RDB-partitioned Zip disk, which Windows does not recognize (though, I believe UAE will recognize it; I don't know as even though I have Amiga Forever, I still don't do Amiga emulation.)

Title: Re: Zip Drive Amiga to PC transfer
Post by: Tenacious on February 16, 2013, 05:57:58 AM

PC formatted zip disks can be universally recognized by most OSes.  
PCs              (Of course)
Macs
Linux            (I think)
Amiga          (With Fat95 and a suitable mount file)

It's actually very convenient

Title: Re: Zip Drive Amiga to PC transfer
Post by: mistermsk on February 17, 2013, 01:42:39 PM

Thanks guys. I actually took another way out. I used an Amiga emulator and mounted the USB ZIP drive to it. It can read the ZIP disks that I formatted on my Amiga fine. I also have Dir Master 2 on there which I can easily copy to and from my hard drive on my laptop. I basically copy the lha'ed files over to it then un-archive them on the amiga side. No problems. Thanks for the help.