At 10:42 PM 3/22/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Start from floppy perhaps? (and then format the drive - if/when you come to
>this I can look it up in my borrowed AMIGA manual).
But the hard drive does not appear to exist, how to make it exist?
>You can not write disks for it on your PC. There's however a device you can
>connect back on your LPT port that will let you use an extra Amiga floppy
>drive to write disks - but lacking an extra drive will make it impossible
>(and you need to know how to make circuits as wells).
>What you can do is write AMIGA files to a PC floppy and use them on the
>AMIGA (by mounting PC0: anbd PC1:)
So I could copy the disks I already have. What use is that?
> That way you can get new programs
>(there's still newly made programs for the AMIGA - a browser that sounds
>better than Arahcne for instance) over.
But how do I get those disks for the amiga? if I can't transfer software
from my net connected machine?
>But since your problem seems to be with the workbench disk that will not
>help you.
My workbench disk works, the hard drive doesn't. Maybe. I don't know. It
just doesn't exist to the computer. I can boot with floppy to a gui called
workbench 1.3 and it sits there.
I even have one dumb game called shogun I can load. Boring.
>As I understand it you need to find someone else that has an AMIGA that
>works and is willing to make a copy of workbench for you. Some WorkBenches
>(or is it KickStarts?) where made espacially for early AMIGAs that had a
>HD. These machines might not operate good (or at all) with an incorrect
>version of WorkBench (or KickStart).
That could be something, the computer came with a kickstart and when I use
that, with the hard drive turned on, it complains that volume workbench has
an I/O error, or a read error? I forget. So I put in the kickstart I got
from another friend with the HDD off, and then it prompts for the
workbench, and I put that in, and I"m booted. then I turn on the hard
drive, and nothing. This thing worked fine so far as I know, till it sat
idle about a year ago when it's owner got a 386. Amiga sat ready and
waiting on the desk in case the 386 failed and he had to get a script out
anyway.
>I could send you a floppy (by regular mail) but that will probably be too
>costly to be of any use.
Well, I've got a workbench disk that works anyway.
>BTW: You never specified what AMIGA it was - but the description you gave
>in the earlier mail sounds like an AMIGA 500 (with an AMIGA 520 (the
>external HD)).
It doesn't say what it is, just has amiga and a colored checkmark.
br99yb-1000 is the fccID so maybe it's a 1,000? disk has "Hard drive
plus, a590" on it. Both also have the commodor logo on them.
> >His disk was full, it overflowed last November, so I helped him delete over
> >15MB of downloaded documents from his telix directory.
>
>Perhaps a quick course in deleting files would help him? (If you haven't
>already given him one of course).
>//Bernie
I also gave him instructions to start using a common file extension instead
of using the file extension as an extra 3char for an 11 char name to refer
to each one. He even had one named top100sk.com, (wonder what would have
happened if I'd tried to execute that?) and a wide variety of other
names. we had about ten screens worth of these garbage files, all named
randomly based on the contents, rather than file type. Some we could use
wild cards, but I sat there and typed out onto my laptop all the names so
we could del them one at a time. Geeze. I told him to use eight chars to
name them and give them all the file extension .dav so we could identify
them all and delete with a *.dav command in future
took 3 hours to clean them up, and that was just the telix directory. He
also has some on root, and more in the word perfect directory.
~shudder~
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