Using Amiga Formatted Zip disks with WinUAE

[Buleste]

This is it. I'm not sure of the configuration details to create a ZIP0: device. The Zip drive is effectively Unit 3 of the IDE. I just need a little help.

[Harrison]

I just tested an Amiga formatted Zip Disk on my PC using a USB Powered Zip100 drive and WinUAE, and with the disk mounted in WinUAE as an Amiga Harddrive, WinUAE can see and access the Zip Disk just like a normal Amiga HD, with the drive appearing as an icon on the Workbench desktop.

And I didn't use any Zip0: device. Just booted WinUAE using a Workbench 3 ADF.

[Buleste]

Like I say tried using Zip disk as a Hard drive but got "Drive safety Check is active. Selected drive is Non Empty and non RDB partitioned".

:Update:
I've managed to get WinUAE to make HDF's out of them so I've been able to read them (and found that what i was looking for isn't on there ). Looks like I'm going to have to have a look at getting my poorly 1200 up and running again and see if I can get the files that I want that way.

[Harrison]

Like I say tried using Zip disk as a Hard drive but got "Drive safety Check is active. Selected drive is Non Empty and non RDB partitioned".

Forgot to mention that you can disable this safely check in WinUAE by editing a WinUAE shortcut and adding:

winuae.exe -disableharddrivesafetycheck

This is also needed when connecting real Amiga HD's too.