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Offline amigeanTopic starter

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Connecting Jaz 2GB drive to Amiga 500+ HD
« on: January 24, 2004, 09:39:23 PM »
Hello again!

I recently got myself an Iomega 2GB Jaz drive (scsi). I noticed that the external scsi connector on my Amiga 500+ RocHard HardDiskDrive is a good physical match, in other words 'fits' that of the jaz drive.

My A500+ is bog-standard with WB2.1. Now here are my questions - any help appreciated:

1) Would the drive work on this setup (no compatibility issues/anyone with experience)?
2) What kind of drivers/software would I need and where is the best place to start looking (my guess is aminet, right?)?
3)  Is booting off a jaz drive possible (under wb2.1)?
4) If a different filesystem is necessary - is it compatible with my miggy's rom/wb combination?
5) Would the amiga simply see it as a harddrive?

I didn't try turning them on and testing as I am afraid of damaging my precioussss A500+.
I just think that it would be great for installing WHload and games to play with, as the miggy's existing HDD is microscopic (50mb I think).....I cant wait to get it working :))))))
pheww that's it....for now :-)

thanks to everyone beforehand.

 

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Re: Connecting Jaz 2GB drive to Amiga 500+ HD
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2004, 11:46:48 PM »
Thanks very much Jope,

I am going to try it!