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Iomega� does not provide support for the Amiga� Operating System or for the SCSI board and its associated software If problems are encountered that are outside the scope of this document, contact your SCSI board manufacturer
Installation:
- Turn the power off to all devices in your system
- Connect the SCSI cable from the external SCSI connector on the rear of the Jaz� drive to the external SCSI connector on the SCSI adapter card
- Enable termination on the first and last devices connected to the SCSI chain and disable termination to any other devices
- Set the SCSI ID Make sure that all devices connected to the ribbon cable have different SCSI ID numbers A switch found on the rear of the drive sets the SCSI ID
- Set the SCSI card to bootable by jumping the boot jumper on the card This must be done even when you do not intend to boot from the drive If you are not sure how to set this jumper try the card the way it is (cards usually ship with bootability enabled), otherwise contact the card manufacturer Booting from the Jaz drive is not recommended
- The Jaz drive should now be installed
Formatting the Disk:
Formatting destroys any information on the disk Before performing a format on a disk make sure you have a backup copy of any information on the disk you may need
- Turn the power on to the computer and to the Jaz drive If you have an external Jaz drive, turn the drive power on before you power on the computer
- Insert the Jaz disk into the drive
- Locate HDToolBox on your system or refer to your Amiga documentation for installation HDToolBox should be in your tools directory under Workbench: (HD0:)
- Select HDToolBox menu, choose Menu and then select Information
- Once inside the Icon Information window, click on New and enter the SCSI card adapter driver as shown:
- For Commodore cards enter SCSI_DEVICE_NAME= scsidevice
- For GVP cards enter SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=gvpscsidevice
- For more than one card from the same manufacturer enter SCSI_DEVICE_NAME= 2ndgvpscsidevice
If you don't know the name of the device driver, contact the manufacturer of your SCSI card
- Press Return to enter the device driver name into the Tool Types window and then choose Save
- Run HDToolBox by double clicking on the HDToolBox Icon The Jaz drive light will now flicker for a minute while HDToolBox scans the disk
- Choose Continue if HDToolBox warns you of changes
- You should now be at the main HDToolBox screen Select the Jaz drive from the window under Hard Drives in System The Jaz drive can be recognized by the SCSI ID number found under Address The first time a format is performed, status will be Unknown
- Select Change Drive Type, Define new drive type, and then Read Configuration From Drive
Iomega Drive and AmigaDOS Operation Notes:
- AmigaDOS and Removability
- If removable disks have different volume names, AmigaDOS may not be able to recognize a new disk To avoid this problem, give all removable disks used in a specific drive the same volume name At the very least, give all related removable disks used in the save drive the same volume name If you must use disks with different volume names, you may need to reboot your computer after changing disks
- Partitioning and Removable Disks
- Partitioning of any type of removable disk is not recommended AmigaDOS defaults to multiple partitions on larger disks Partitioning of removable disks can cause problems with changing disks and keeping partition sizes synchronized from disk to disk
- Disks and Low-Level Formats
- All Jaz disks have spare tracks available for use during low-level formats If a disk begins generating read/write errors, a low-level format will replace any bad sectors on the disk with the available spare sectors This process assures an error free disk over the life of the Jaz disk Low-level formats can be performed using the HDToolBox utility
Document source: IOmega Support Page
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