Question from an Amiga Newbie - Zip Drives...

[Fingers]

If i am not completely misstaken:
"the Amiga cannot read any PC file systems on an IDE bus"
Yes you can. as long as you have a proper mountlist for the HDD in question. However. you cannot boot from it.

Really?

"Here is my suggestion. Buy a Zorro slot sidecar & a Buddha card. Then you can have up to four IDE devices at once. I'm thinking a HDD to install your OS on (plus storage space), then add a CD drive to transfer stuff from the PC"
Why not a zip drive while your at it....

Good point.

PZ.

[pyrre]

Here:http://cgi.ebay.com/IVS-Grandslam-sidecar-for-Amiga-500-8mb-ram-512mb-HD_W0QQitemZ250574667325QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a5769fe3d
is your sidecar. with SCSI controller. this controller should work with any external SCSi zip drive... (or internal for that matter) Jus make sure you get a DB 25 cable with it...

[motorollin]

@Fingers
Yes, the Amiga can read non-AmigaDOS formatted hard drives on either IDE or SCSI interfaces. It is just a matter of writing the correct mountlist and having the correct filesystem available. There are tools on Aminet (e.g. Giggledisk) for generating a mountlist automatically based on the partitions on the disk.

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moto