Mac PreFormated Zip Jaz disks OK for Amiga?

[Dr_Righteous]

Does it recognize the fact a disk has been inserted? Do you get an NDOS icon on the Workbench?

Amigas won't recognize Mac formats by default, you'll need CrossMac. Assuming you can see a ZIP disk at all, you can reformat it for DOS (FAT), since CrossDOS should already be installed and MacOS can read DOS (FAT) disks too.

Oh and of course you need to have the ZIP drivers installed on your miggy as well... Found easilly on Aminet.

[Dr_Righteous]

Do you have JazTools installed? That might help. http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=iomega

Might double check the disk isn't write protected using your Mac. That optical write protection is a bear sometimes.

[Dr_Righteous]

The formats are indeed different. I can't put a Mac formatted ZIP disk in my PC and have it read (without software intervention)... It'll assume the disk is unformatted and prompt to format. Thus the little lable on the disk that says "Mac Formatted." It's not just software, it's a different format.

Using a FAT (DOS/Windows) formated ZIP disk...
You should have a file in Devs:/DOSDrivers called ZIC containing:
FileSystem = CrossDOSFileSystem
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 1
SectorsPerBlock = 1
SectorSize = 512
Mask = 0x7ffffffe
MaxTransfer = 0x100000
Reserved = 0
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 196607
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 2000
Priority = 10
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x4d534800

Icon Information should contain:
File Tab...
   Name: ZIC (Project)
   Version: ?
   Protection: Read, Write, Delete, Execute
   Icon Tab...
   Default Tool: C:Mount
   StackSize: 4094
   Priority: 0
   Start From: Workbench
   ToolTypes:
      Activate=1
      Device=(YOURscsi.device)
      Unit=(SCSI ID of ZIP drive)

There is another file called ZIP, but you don't really need it since you're going through CrossDOS, rather than formating with FFS.