Pippi 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?
Do you have a working workbench disk? If so you need to mount the HD (in
AmigaDOS).
Without either a manual, someone that has one or someone that knows enough
about an AMIGA you can not do anything "advanced" with it at all. Luckily
I've borrowed a manual from a friend so I can probably help you out :)
>So I could copy the disks I already have. What use is that?
You could (probably) copy a disk you don't have by download it as an ADF
(Amiga Disk Format) from the Internet. ADFs are manily used by people that
use an AMIGA emulator. (And by PS/2 machines - but that's another ADF).
>But how do I get those disks for the amiga? if I can't transfer software
>from my net connected machine?
You can - on a PC floppy (that you need to mount ("mount PC0:"))
The AMIGA can read PC floppies - but not boot from them (for obvious
reasons software is required which is on the ("newer"?) workbench disk).
>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.
Ok then, I didn't know that. Start a Shell and type mount to see mount
information and get back to me (perhaps we should take this off-list?).
BTW: Don't change mount status on your workbench disk - you might
accidently write to the wrong place (boot-up files). In fact Workbench
isn't the OS (most) AMIGA owners think so - but so does Windows95 users.
The OS is AmigaDOS which isn't very much like DOS, it's more like a bizare
mixture of DOS and Linux.
>I even have one dumb game called shogun I can load. Boring.
I think I have that game as well (not that I ever have attempted to play
anything on the AMIGA).
>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.
You probably need to change the AMIGAs BIOS so it boots from floppy first
(which is the way it normally is set up). To get into it you hold down the
right mouse button while it's booting (IIRC).
BTW: I have four mice for the AMIGA - and they all seem to work fine
(despite their age), if only I could use them for the PC (diffrent voltage
and/or pins) :/
>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.
How weird, all (ok - not that many) AMIGAs I've seen have information on
what it is in the top left corner.
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