Zip drive

[Marcel21674]

Got myself a ide  internal zip-drive this morning.
Hooked it up on the amiga1200.
So far so good. The amiga sees the zip drive, but its unassigned.
Tried to format the disk in hdtools, but that doesn't work.
Made 2 partitions on de zip drive and even after rebooting it still sees both partitions on the zip drive, but i can't format them. Everytime after rebooting its unassigned again.

What i'm doing wrong?

[danbeaver]

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

[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?

[Marcel21674]

My mistake, its not unassigned but uninitialized.

[Darrin]

My mistake, its not unassigned but uninitialized.

Do a "quick format" on it via Workbench.

[Marcel21674]

I can't, it will show a popup (cd is write protected).

[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.

[Marcel21674]

i'll give it a try, thanks

[Matt_H]

Also take a look at this thing. OS3.9 (and 3.5? Can't remember) comes with IOTools, a handy GUI tool for configuring the non-obvious features of ZIP drives. I think an older version is on Aminet.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like there isn't an older version of IOTools. But there is also the option of using a Mountlist instead of an RDB (meaning your Zip disks wouldn't be bootable) - a bunch of those are on Aminet.