Short: Format Iomega ZIP drives for MSDOS PCs Author: Alexander Feigl Uploader: Alexander Feigl Version: 0.2 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 Changes since V0.1: - small bugfix : program terminated before writing bootblock and directory - mount entry included in distribution ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2913 626 78.5% 11-Apr-98 07:21:06 FormatZIP.info 671 366 45.4% 08-Jun-98 05:18:50 +ZPC0C 532 309 41.9% 08-Jun-98 05:18:52 +ZPC0C.info 14912 8410 43.6% 08-Jun-98 05:16:42 +FormatZIP 1861 906 51.3% 08-Jun-98 05:18:30 +FormatZIP.readme 8007 2468 69.1% 08-Jun-98 05:15:34 +FormatZIP.c -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 28896 13085 54.7% 09-Jun-98 13:39:44 6 files