Pippi wrote:
>okay, I DO have such a floppy, last time I had it up and running I opened a
>CLI window but curiously could not get any text to type in it. Probably a
>connection problem with the keyboard. Nevertheless, what would I type to
>mount said drive? So the fact that floppies inserted in the floppy drive
>appear by magic on the desktop is because the DRIVE is already
>automagically mounted?
Yes Amiga floppies are automagically mounted (as you may notice the drive
keeps working even if there's no floppy present).
> I do not have an external PC drive that I can attach onto the Amiga,
>although I do have an external 3.5" drive with a db 19 connector (weird)
>and no marking on it save it's fcc id that I've not looked up. The amiga's
>floppy connection port is a db 23. I have never used the external floppy,
>just that it was only $5. ~grin~
Oh, no you need an external AMIGA floppy (drive) that you connect to your
PC via some special equipment you can build yourself (in theory atleast
<g>) that hooks onto the LPT port.
>But not just the floppy, also the drive? So taking an old double density
>which is what it uses, and formatting/writing to it as a double density in
>my pc won't work, or will? this is where I"m not clear, is it the drive
>that has to be a IBM compatible, or just the floppy? You have used the
>term floppy for both the disk and the drive and I am not sure which you mean.
Sorry. I'll try to explain again. (And please if you still can't understand
what I'm talking about don't hesitate to ask again).
(In short if I write floppy drive then that means the drive and if I write
floppy it means the disk - but I may not be consistent since I can see from
the context which I mean <G>).
You'll need:
1 internal 3.5" drive in your PC (which you probably have)
1 3.5" disk formatted for 720KB (preferly a DSDD - 720KB - disk since some
drives otherwise will mess up your DSHD disk (my new one does - but
somewhere in the house there's a DSHD capable drive that *can* format with
the size of 720KB)).
Format the drive in the PC for 720KB (unless you already have done so).
Next copy over whatever you may want to the drive (a little useless unless
you get the HD working IMO).
Next eject the disk and go over to the AMIGA and insert the disk.
Now in theory your AMIGA might recognize the disk as an PC disk so perhaps
it mounts it automagically (I haven't found where this info is stored but
I'm pretty sure it can be done).
If not you need to mount it yourself. Start a CLI (you may need to run
"startcli" if no icon is present). To mount the disk you type: "mount pc0:"
(A PC disk in drive 0 (the internal one). I can't remember if it switches
automatic or if you need to change yourself. "pc0:" will either way get you
to the disk.
Short command list:
mount [device] - mounts the selected device or show information about the
diffrent devices.
copy <file> [to] <file> - copies a file
makedir <directory> - makes a directory
cd <directory> - changes directory ("/" is to go back)
The major drawback IMO with AmigaDOS is that it lacks *.* (atleast nothing
stood in the manual about anything like it). And when I removed Free Pascal
by hand (nothing like deltree) it was a little tiresome going into each
directoy and removing the files and then exiting the directory to remove it
and so forth.
>I keep that disk write protected.
Ok, so it's probably done both in hardware and software then ;)
>That's where the check mark icon and name amiga are located. It's a low
>flat thing, like a desktop PC, with a "garage" under that fits the
>keyboard, and the drive hanging awkwardly off the side, held on by it's
>connection (I put a yo-yo under for support on the far side) and the drive
>has a humongous power box downstream on the cord, with a switch. There are
>two "serial" ports on the side, one which has the mouse in it, and the
>drive gets in the way of them, so the mouse connector has to be at a right
>angle to get between. Drive has a parallel port on rear (but pointed
>forward?) and four dip switches, #1 is up, the other 3 are down. Up is on.
Ok, I have NOT seen an AMIGA like that (perhaps in a picture). My Amiga
(and most) are not much larger than the keyboard for the PC. Yours is
probably one of the very first that came out.
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