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Started by Moz Morris
Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
Power XL External Drive - HELP!
Author: Moz Morris
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
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Hi Everybody, I wonder if anybody out there can help me. I've just bought an XL Drive second hand. It came with the setup software but no manual. In the readme on the disk it says something about the drive being installed as DF0, but obviously this applies to the internal version - I would have thought - so I went ahead and loaded the program by booting from the floppy. This boots into it's own custom installer screen. You are then required to remove the disk - which I did - and then decide where you want to install the patch. Obviously I choose dh0 as this is my boot partiton,and then whether you want an ordinary - i.e. just Amiga - or advanced - + PC & Atari - install. Being as I want to be able to read/write and format PC disks I checked this. After rebooting the patch is activated and theoretically I should be away. But I can only read/write & format Amiga HD disks. PC ones are a no no. I have even given Devs/dosdrivers a PC2 driver, but to now avail. Do I have to change the mountfile in the dosdriver, if so what is it? What am I doing wrong!! HELP PLEASE!! I am using an A2000 with WB 3.1 by the way. <tsb> <tsb>************************************************************************ <tsb>* Moz Morris A2000/28MHz040/2meg chip/16meg fast * <tsb>* Dedicated Amiga User CD ROM,1 gig HD,14.4 modem * <tsb>* Blackpool,England __ * <tsb>* E-mail: mozmorris@enterprise.net __/// * <tsb>* Waiting for the POWER AMIGA! Proud Member of Team AMIGA \XX/ * <tsb>* "Dare to be different" * <tsb>************************************************************************ <tsb> Adam West is tied to a giant waffle iron! How will he escape?
Re: Power XL External Drive - HELP!
Author: Andrew P Scheller
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
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I've got a Power XL drive too. I'm using it on an A500Plus with WB2.
AFAIK the 'Install software patch' only copies the program
'HighDensityPatch' into c: and adds the line 'c:HighDensityPatch' to the
top of your s:startup-sequence. All you need to do to read/write PC and
Atari disks is run CrossDos. I've got mine set up as df1: and I've got
CrossDos off an old magazine coverdisk. All I do is click on the icon
AttatchDI1: and it then mounts the drive as di1: allowing the drive to
read/write amiga HD disks as df1: and read/write PC HD disks as di1:
Hope this helps,
Andrew
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P.S. I've got my other extrernal drive as df2:
Re: Power XL External Drive - HELP!
Author: Chris K Jackman
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 00:00
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I'm using wb3.1 on my a500+ and I have DF1: XL HD 3.5" drive. I'm using CROSSDOS 5.6 (I think) not the one from WB3.1, but here is my PC1: driver that seems to work okay with PC HD disks. /* CrossDOS file system entry * * This file enables CrossDOS on the first external floppy drive normally * referred to as DF1:. PC0 does the same for DF0. By creating new versions * of this file and changing the Unit line to use other numbers, you can * make CrossDOS available on other devices. For example, changing the value * of Unit to 2 would create a mount file that would enable CrossDOS on DF2. */ FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem Device = mfm.device Unit = 1 Flags = 1 Surfaces = 2 BlocksPerTrack = 9 Reserved = 1 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0 HighCyl = 79 Buffers = 5 BufMemType = 0 StackSize = 600 Priority = 5 GlobVec = -1 DosType = 0x4D534400 Hope that helps anyone who is having problems. Chris J.
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