Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!rayssd!plw
From: plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS & virtual drives...frustration
Keywords: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS, virtual drives
Message-ID: <3461@rayssdb.ray.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 13:09:22 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI
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OK, I give up.  What's the secret?

My Amiga 2000 w/ Bridgeboard and I had a wrestling match last night...
the Amiga won.  My goal was to use my download of the PD version of 
CrossDOS to transform my df1: drive into di1:.  Then I planned to 
access an IBM checkbook program (Quicken) on a 3.5" disk.

Well, I found out more about the rad:, ram:, ramdrive.sys, di1:, jlink
virtual drives than I ever wanted to know.  But I could not execute 
or read that program from the Bridgeboard.  My initial impression from 
my wrestling match is that it's not possible to do this without buying
another IBM compatible 3.5" drive and plugging it into the Bridgeboard.

In case I didn't make myself understood, CrossDOS worked exactly as 
advertised, except that I thought it would also make a disk readable
by the Bridgeboard (the documentation said nothing about this, it 
was just my wishful thinking). The AREAD program successfully copied
the programs, but they were also unreadable.  Before I fell asleep
last night, I thought of a scheme where AWRITE might conceivably 
do the trick, but in the twilight of unconciousness, many lies are
told.  (maybe I should use that line in my next book).

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Paul White
Safety in numbness.
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