Iomega ZIP Drive

[Tenacious]

I get an error when I attempt to FAT format them on the AMIGA...."Disk is not Validated. I can format them to FFS alll day long on the Amiga...weird I say!

I'm at the point of thinking I'm not getting a true FAT16 filesystem on the ZIP Disk after I format it on my Win7 PC..

You have CrossDOSfilesystem in your L: directory?

Is DosType the same?

If you format the Zip disks on a PC, they aren't recognized?  Zip 100MB or 250MB?  Brand new factory formatted disk?

I run OS3.9 and this is my mountlist (or rather DosDriver file) for a 100MB zip disk called ZPC:

Filesystwem          = L:CrossDOSfilesystem
Flags                    = 0
Surfaces               = 2
BlocksPerTrack      = 64
SectorSize            = 512
Mask                    = 0x7ffffffe
MaxTransfer          = 0x0ffffffe
Reserved              = 1
Interleave             = 0
LowCyl                 = 0
HighCyl                = 1535
Buffers                 = 50
BufMemType         = 0
StasckSize            = 2000
Priority                 = 10
GlobVec                = -1
DosType               = 0x4d534800

The SCSI device driver, unit #, etc are specified in the icon's Tool Types.

I use factory PC formatted zip disks interchangeably between Amiga, PCs, and Macs.  Very convenient.  

[Tenacious]

Tenacious is right (and thank you for posting your mountlist).

Try it with CrossDos (that is why it is there)

I wasn't trying to contradict Amiga999.  He was simply a few seconds faster at posting his response than I was.