should zip drives be seen by Hard drive toolbox?

[lordspider]

@Gav:

I have an IDE ZIP drive, it works nice here. No problems with disk changing and it is displayed in HDToolBox.

I see you are using PowerFlyer, I never tried ZIP drive with it, I only have 4xEIDE from Elbox, but ZIP is working with their driver.

Which AmigaOS do you have and how does yor ZIP mountlist look like? Maybe there is a problem...

[lordspider]

Well, I also have AmigaOs 3.9 + BoingBag 2 and there are files in SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers for ZIP drives.

The first is ZIP (and ZIP.info) for Amiga-formatted ZIP-disks and the second ZIC (and ZIC.info) for PC-formatted ZIP-disks.

You need to edit the tooltypes in .icon files to adjust the mountlist to your controller (for example, my ZIP drive is connected as Slave on the first IDE channel, so the DEVICE is scsi.device and UNIT is 1 in both .info files).

What you can do is also to edit the ZIC file and change the L:CrossDOSFileSystem to L:FAT95 (you can find FAT95 in the fat95.lha archive on Aminet). FAT95 allows you to see the long names on PC-formatted disks.

And the last thing to do: you should move all 4 files (ZIP, ZIC, ZIP.info, ZIC.info) from SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers to SYS:Devs/DOSDrivers so the ZIP drive is mounted on every system startup.