How do you hook up a ZIP 100 Drive to an A2000HD?

[Framiga]

@whabang

useless comment too.

[iamaboringperson]

I just hope DM wasn't working on anything to do with SCSI on that "Workbench 4.0" project for the A2000HD! :-o

[whabang]

Framiga wrote:
@whabang

useless comment too.

Kinda why I edited it...

[Framiga]

by iamaboringperson on 2003/9/20 20:54:42

I just hope DM wasn't working on anything to do with SCSI on that "Workbench 4.0" project for the A2000HD!

omitting the fact of the dummy AmigaOS4 for A200HD bull-####.

Every DM post, is an insult."

He is convinced that all the others are morons, therefore who is still insultings, is always he.

Ciao

[DoomMaster]

To Erwin-K:

What is the difference between an Amiga formatted zip disk and a PC formatted zip disk?  Is the zip disk formatted like an Amiga hard drive?  Thanks for your help.     :-D

[Stew]

  The Amiga formats the disk as an Amiga volume with the chosen file system ie. FFS. One formatted on the pc will have a pc file system ie. fat95. You can not read Amiga file systems on a pc. You can read and write pc disks on the Amiga with a program called CrossDOS.  You still can not run a program (would require some type of emulator), but you can share files this way via sneaker net.

Stew
Owner of A200Professional (see avatar just for you DM)

[Framiga]

GRRRRRRR!!!!!

[Karlos]

@Doomy

Fat95 is the filesystem to use if you want to share youre zip disks between windows and amigaos. Fat95 is a FAT32 compatible filesystem, supporting long filenames and various file attributes and is available from aminet.

Copy Druidnick's mountlist to make yourself a mountlist for your zip drive, call it ZIP or something and plop it into your Devs:Dosdrivers drawer if you want it to be auto mounted at startup.

-edit-

Note you wont need the MYZIP: line if you are making a dosdriver file as above (IIRC).

OTOH, simply copy Druidnicks mountlist to youre Devs: drawer and call it MYZIP.mountlist.

Somewhere in your S:user-startup file add

Mount MYZIP: from DEVS:MYZIP.mountlist >NIL:

Both should work fine. Personally I prefer the former method but its all a matter of preference.

[DoomMaster]

To Karlos:

I have Fat95 on a disk.  Will Fat95 also work with CDs and disks?

To all other Amiga Org members:  

This is what I want to do:

I want to copy each one of my over 1000 vintage Amiga games and programs to my DH1 (external data hard drive).  For instance, I have a disk with Deluxe Paint 4 on it.  I would first create a folder on my hard drive and name that folder Deluxe Paint 4.  Then I would copy the entire contents of the Deluxe Paint 4 disk to that folder.  I will do the rest of my 1000 disks the same way.  Then I want to copy those folders to my PC hard drive and burn them to a CD-R.  I do not want to change the file names, because then the programs will not work.  ISSO 9660 CD-Rs work great for Amiga data files like animations, mods, etc. because it does not matter if you rename the files, they will still work.  But with actual programs it is a different story.  What format should I use when burning the CD-R on a PC, so that the file names do not have to be changed?  I do not have my Yamaha CD-RW drive set up yet on my Amiga, so I have to burn the CD-Rs on my PC.  I want to do this before all of this cool vintage Amiga software is lost forever.  They are all original disks that I paid for.  If I can burn them to a CD-R then we will all have them.  For instance: if your dog chewed on your original Deluxe Paint 4 disk, you could always email me and I can send you a new Deluxe Paint 4 disk for the price of the disk and postage.  I do not think that this is piracy, because we both own and paid for the original disks, but those disks will not last much longer, so we have to help each other out.  I don't think that the software companies that sold the original software is around anymore, so this is the only way that we could get replacement disks.  Moderators, if I am wrong about this, please let me know.  I am only trying to help all of us, including myself.    

Thanks for your help, guys.     :-D

[Karlos]

Fat95 is fine for floppies, hard disk partitions, zip drives etc.

As for CD roms, things are a bit different. Data CD's have always had their own formats (ISO standards).

If you have OS3.5 or better, the CacheCDFS filesystem bundled with it reads Joliet (that is windows own extensions to the CD standards) fine. Nothing special you need to do there unless something is wrong in your CacheCDFS settings. Check the prefs program for it and make sure Joliet support is enabled.

I burn CD's on my winbox to copy large files to my amiga quite often, so I can verify that this works just fine.

[DeQuevedo]

To DoomMaster:

You may helped in developing of "Workbench 4" for Amiga 2000 HD professiononal computer, what you all VINTAGE, but, as I can see, you dont wanna do more than play with your adfs images and these kind of things.

I personally think that you have never seen an Amiga b4 your VINTAGE A2k, or didn´t see none for many years, too many.

Do you know where to powerup the system?This new system has a dinamic RAM disc!doh!

[DoomMaster]

To Karlos:

I like your avatar.  I have often laughed and thought that it is really cool.     :-P

[DoomMaster]

To DeQuevedo:

I love the vintage Amiga games, Demos and Mods.  I play them all the time.  I do not want to lose them, this is why I want to burn them to a CD-R and make backup copies of that CD-R.  I plan on buying another Amiga 3000T and 4000T soon, but I will always like my Amiga 2000HD computers the best.  They are very high quality and are built like a tank!     :-D

[Erwin-K]

DoomMaster,

Others have replied better than I can as my bootable Zip was used for Amigas at work. That A2000 now has an 060, 128MB ram, & a 4GB drive.  I still sometimes use PC formated Zips for file transfers to our Windblows network.

The Zip drive was a lifesaver back then, now it is just a nice to have item.

[iamaboringperson]

@DoomMaster

You keep avoiding the bit about working on AOS 4.0 and having it run on your A2000

[Druideck]

just an optional  tip when copying files between PC and Amigas, try to lha or zip the files so as not to lose
any filenames or protection bits. It's safer
if files are in an archive.  :-)