Short: Format Iomega ZIP drives for MSDOS PCs Author: Alexander Feigl Uploader: Alexander Feigl Version: 0.1 Type: disk/misc This is a PRERELEASE of FormatZIP - a utility to format Iomega ZIP drives for MSDOS PCs. This is impossible with the usual format command of AmigaOS because with the usual format command you would theoretically create a ZIP disk in floppy disk format. The ZIP disks used on PCs are in "harddisk format" with one single partition and CrossDOSFilesystem cannot create this partition table. FormatZIP was compiled with GCC for Amiga - sources are included FormatZIP is freely distributable as long as the name of the author is not removed. Usage : FormatZIP Examples: FormatZIP scsi.device 5 - format a ZIP drive attached at SCSI ID 5 of your "scsi.device" FormatZIP cybscsi.device 5 - same as above with Phase 5 SCSI controller CAUTION : If you select the wrong device your harddisk will become an EMPTY!!!!!! ZIP :-) I am NOT responsible for unrecoverable loss of data!!! You have to cause a diskchange after FormatZIP Future : - use DOS devices as parameter instead of exec devices - lock all DOS devices of this ZIP drive while formatting (this will cause a diskchange afterwards) - Don't hardcode the drive geometry - this would make this tool usable for Jaz drives, too. For this I'll need information about MSDOS MBR - using CrossDOSFileSystem for formatting of the partition. Problem: V2.1 CrossFS is buggy Author : Please EMail bug reports & suggestions to: Alexander Feigl ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2913 626 78.5% 11-Apr-98 07:21:06 FormatZIP.info 13076 7528 42.4% 11-Apr-98 07:21:46 +FormatZIP 1706 828 51.4% 11-Apr-98 07:21:56 +FormatZIP.readme 8035 2472 69.2% 11-Apr-98 07:21:38 +FormatZIP.c -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 25730 11454 55.4% 12-Apr-98 01:27:06 4 files