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Offline gwalpTopic starter

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WinUAE and Zp Drive
« on: January 06, 2004, 09:20:24 PM »
I am using Amiga Forever v5 .  I cannot get it to read my Amiga Formated Zip Disks in the ZIP drive. It is an external SCSI drive.  
Icon Info is set as follows
Activate = 1
Startup = 1
device =  uaescsi.device
unit = 1
The  drive is configured to scsi id 6. The ICON info is loaded in the DEVS/dosdrivers drawer.
If I put a PC disk in the zip drive it will read the disk.  I have lots of programs archived on zip disks and would like to use them. I have my old Amiga harddrive hooked up and it reads it fine.   My SCSI is not working on my  A4k.   Any suggestions
 

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Re: WinUAE and Zp Drive
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2004, 06:37:14 PM »
Thomas
The problem is not getting the ZIP drive to mount. The IOmega ZIP drive mounts when I use uaescsi.device unit 6. The Zip drive will read PC formatted disks but not Amiga formatted disks.

Does WinUAE treat the ZIP disk like a floppy?


 

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Re: WinUAE and Zp Drive
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2004, 11:21:59 PM »
I use Windows XP Pro and have the hard drive  formated NTFS. Windows is more stable.
In the WInUAE config screen  I select use uaescci.  
When WB boots in the ZIP.info I select Unit 6.
 

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Re: WinUAE and Zp Drive
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2004, 02:42:05 PM »
I loaded the ZIP driver on my harddrive from the Squirrel Zip disk I bought years ago when I was still using OS3.1 on my real A4000. When I upgraded to 3.5 and then 3.9 it was there and worked.
As for WinUae, when I put my Amiga drive into my PC machine under WinUae since the Zip drive was  already installed on my PC I  was able to select it in the WinUae configuration just like a CD-Rom using Add Dirctory under Hard Drive.  WinUae loaded and it works fine reading PC formatted ZIP disks but it will not read Amiga formatted disks like it did when evderything was in my Amiga.  Before the scsi controller in my Amiga stopped working the ZIP drive would read both Amiga formatted disked and  with CrossDos it would also read PC formatted disks.
It would be nice to get it to read my Amiga disks but I have acqquried another scsi controller for my Amiga so when it arrives I will get the A4k back together and get my data from the Zip disks.