Zip drive

[Darrin]

I have one hooked to the IDE port on an A4000D, but I have IDEfix'97 program installed.  It works fine.

Same here.  I use ClassicWB OS3.x based and I recall some ZIP files in the storage draw...

I not home at the moment so I can't recall what they were.  DOS drivers to allow FAT32 formatted ZIP100 disks perhaps?

[Darrin]

My mistake, its not unassigned but uninitialized.

Do a "quick format" on it via Workbench.

[Darrin]

IIRC, ZIP 100 disks have a software method of setting write protect on them.  So assuming for some reason that your Amiga don't think it is dealing with a read-only CD ROM, go back to HD Toolbox, prep it as a single FFS partition and then see if you can do a long format on it.

Edit:  Also, have the ZIP disk in the drive when you switch on the A1200.