My final attempt at using a zip drive on my amiga..

[Gav]

Hi there
Ok after a long time of trying to get my amiga to wrok with my iomega zip 100 i have decided to make sure i have it all correct before i call it a day.
Its plugged in to my powerflyer secondary port and is the only deivce connected to it so it should be unit 2 in my zip dos driver.I have it named as trackdisk.device as thats what it says to do on the power flyer software disk.
The drive i am using i want amiga formatted only so i dont need any info on how to get it pc format whatever because thats not what i want to use it for.
So i have my zip icon in the dos drivers folder and seems to be set correct? but i dont see any icon of a zip disk on my screen.
Once by mistake it was configured as a hard drive through HD toolbox but i erased it so there should be no problem there.Im all out of ideas so if anyone else has anything help for me before i give up on it id really be thankful to hear,thanks.
Gav

[Gav]

Yeah thats what it says in the powerflyer readme file,it tells you about what it should be named for medai such as hard drives and cd roms and then for zip and ls120 etc.
in atapi prefs it tells me my zip driev is secondary master so someone told me it will be unit 2.
Thanks

[Gav]

Its crazy how many diffrent ways im hearing that a zip drive should work with an amiga.I have heard ppl tell me its wrong to have it set like a hard drive since you can only remove the disk when you switch teh machine off since it is like a hard drive.Then ppl are telling me you are supposed to have it set like a hard drive,hmm what to do....

[Gav]

Hi
well i tried all of the above as i wrote at amigaworld.net,but yeah thats it and nothing changed.

[Gav]

Hi again everyone
Well im just wanting to know what everyone thinks about this because i dont understand it at all.
Everything is done correct in the icon info on my zip dos driver and is as follows.

DEVICE=trackdisk.device
Unit=2
ACTIVATE=1
DONOTWAIT

So then with those settings i get nothing from the zip drive at all but when i re name it to scsi.device i get an icon.
So i downloaded a zip drive program from aminet which also reads it when it is Scsi.device but once again i get nothing with trackdisk.The problem with scsi is it wont allow me to swap disks over which of course isnt what im wanting.
So what do you ppl think about it?Has anyone else had the same problem?
Thanks

[Gav]

Yeah but i'm using a powerflyer so i cat use ide fix with the atapi software..

[Gav]

Haha yeah thats a good one but doesnt really help me much here and second of all i do have a cd burner which doesnt seem to work with cd on fire and i aint got £50 right now for make cd.
Nah that isnt true about the id numer considering my cd drive is unit 1 anyways...
Oh well nevermind lol not even elbox`s own manual works,wow.....

[Gav]

But anyways just for the hell of it i did change the id number to 6 and yeah it doesnt work.So anyways i guess its time to quit with the stupid thing,thats the only problem with amiga os everything is such a puzzle to even configure even when you do follow the useless manual.

[Gav]

Hmm i dont recall doing so,how do you do that then??? but yeah my cd drive is under cd1.
Cheers