How do you hook up a ZIP 100 Drive to an A2000HD?

[DoomMaster]

Hi folks,

I just bought a SCSI ZIP 100 drive.  How do I hook it up to my Amiga 2000HD computer?  What drivers or software do I need?  Will a PC also be able to read the files from the ZIP disk?  The Amiga and the PC can both read the ISSO 9660 CD-Rs.     :-o

[DoomMaster]

To N7VQM:

Thanks.  My ZIP drive is a internal drive and all 3 of my Amiga 2000HDs have a Commodore A2091 SCSI Controller Card in them.  The boot hard drive on all 3 A2000HDs is set to ID # 0.  The external data harddrives are set up as ID # 1.  What device numbers should I give to the CD-Rom and ZIP drives?  I appreciate you helping me with this.     :-D

[DoomMaster]

To Druideck:

Thanks, I will try this out.     :-P

[DoomMaster]

To Druideck:

I do not have a zip drive in my PC (CD-Rs are a lot cheaper then ZIP disks).  Can I use this mount list to format a ZIP disk on the Amiga itself?  What would the file system be, would it be compatible with a PC ZIP drive, so I could copy files back and forth?     :-o

[DoomMaster]

To Erwin-K:

What is the difference between an Amiga formatted zip disk and a PC formatted zip disk?  Is the zip disk formatted like an Amiga hard drive?  Thanks for your help.     :-D

[DoomMaster]

To Karlos:

I have Fat95 on a disk.  Will Fat95 also work with CDs and disks?

To all other Amiga Org members:  

This is what I want to do:

I want to copy each one of my over 1000 vintage Amiga games and programs to my DH1 (external data hard drive).  For instance, I have a disk with Deluxe Paint 4 on it.  I would first create a folder on my hard drive and name that folder Deluxe Paint 4.  Then I would copy the entire contents of the Deluxe Paint 4 disk to that folder.  I will do the rest of my 1000 disks the same way.  Then I want to copy those folders to my PC hard drive and burn them to a CD-R.  I do not want to change the file names, because then the programs will not work.  ISSO 9660 CD-Rs work great for Amiga data files like animations, mods, etc. because it does not matter if you rename the files, they will still work.  But with actual programs it is a different story.  What format should I use when burning the CD-R on a PC, so that the file names do not have to be changed?  I do not have my Yamaha CD-RW drive set up yet on my Amiga, so I have to burn the CD-Rs on my PC.  I want to do this before all of this cool vintage Amiga software is lost forever.  They are all original disks that I paid for.  If I can burn them to a CD-R then we will all have them.  For instance: if your dog chewed on your original Deluxe Paint 4 disk, you could always email me and I can send you a new Deluxe Paint 4 disk for the price of the disk and postage.  I do not think that this is piracy, because we both own and paid for the original disks, but those disks will not last much longer, so we have to help each other out.  I don't think that the software companies that sold the original software is around anymore, so this is the only way that we could get replacement disks.  Moderators, if I am wrong about this, please let me know.  I am only trying to help all of us, including myself.    

Thanks for your help, guys.     :-D

[DoomMaster]

To Karlos:

I like your avatar.  I have often laughed and thought that it is really cool.     :-P

[DoomMaster]

To DeQuevedo:

I love the vintage Amiga games, Demos and Mods.  I play them all the time.  I do not want to lose them, this is why I want to burn them to a CD-R and make backup copies of that CD-R.  I plan on buying another Amiga 3000T and 4000T soon, but I will always like my Amiga 2000HD computers the best.  They are very high quality and are built like a tank!     :-D

[DoomMaster]

To Druideck:

That is a very good idea.  I did not even think about first compressing the entire contents of each disk to a file.  Then I could burn those files to an ISSO 9660 CD-R, then it would not matter if the files were renamed to the 8.3 format.  WOW, dude thanks !     :-D