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    From Andy Ball@1:261/38 to All on Wed May 23 23:51:02 2012
    Hello,

    Does anyone here use a SCSI Zip drive with their
    Atari ST, TT etc? Are you able to boot from it?

    Regards,
    - Andy Ball

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  • From Doug Mccomber@1:255/36 to Andy Ball on Fri May 25 08:42:20 2012
    Does anyone here use a SCSI Zip drive with their Atari ST, TT etc?
    Are you able to boot from it?

    Regards, - Andy Ball

    Hi Andy,

    I've got one of those but never thought to try it out. When you say "boot from it" what do you mean? Are you talking about running something from the AUTO folder or launching something like Geneva/NeoDesk or MagicOS?

    Regards,
    Doug

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  • From Andy Ball@1:261/38 to Doug Mccomber on Sun May 27 23:01:36 2012

    Hello Doug,

    DM> I've got one of those but never thought to try it
    > out. When you say "boot from it" what do you mean?
    > Are you talking about running something from the AUTO
    > folder or launching something like Geneva/NeoDesk or
    > MagicOS?

    When I wrote that I was probably thinking of MiNT, which
    I used experimentally with TOSWIN, never with a new AES or desktop and never on
    an ST with a hard disk. I'd settle for being able to see and mount the disk from the GEM desktop.

    Thanks,
    - Andy Ball

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  • From Doug Mccomber@1:255/36 to Andy Ball on Mon May 28 18:35:56 2012
    When I wrote that I was probably thinking of MiNT, which I used experimentally with TOSWIN, never with a new AES or desktop and never
    on an ST with a hard disk. I'd settle for being able to see and
    mount the disk from the GEM desktop.

    I'm going to have to dig out my zip drive and experiment now!

    Regards,
    Doug

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  • From Andy Ball@1:261/38 to Doug Mccomber on Tue May 29 20:30:14 2012
    DM> I'm going to have to dig out my zip drive and experiment now!

    See? I'm a bad influence! :-)

    Regards,
    -Andy Ball

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  • From Greg Goodwin@1:124/5009 to Andy.Ball@familynet-international.n on Sun Sep 9 22:10:22 2012
    I was able to boot from both the local drive and the zip drive.

    I think I even had it where I burned a CD and loaded from that drive at one point as well.

    Of course I got rid of the ST and TTs sometime ago. I liked to use HDriver I think.

    Doc Clu



    Hello,

    Does anyone here use a SCSI Zip drive with their
    Atari ST, TT etc? Are you able to boot from it?

    Regards,
    - Andy Ball

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