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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: IBeM Help on A3000
Message-ID: <17580@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 06:54:20 GMT
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In article <11259@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rmitchel@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bob Mitchell) writes:
>   I've made a feeble attempt at getting IBeM to run on my A3000.  All
>I can get is a recoverable alert from a disk device error.  My question
>to the net is exactly what version of the messydos.device is needed.
>If anyone has had any success at getting IBeM to operate on the A3000,
>I would appreciate explicit hints.  Email me your solutions and I'll
>post a summary if there is any interest.

You need to do a few simple things:

1) Throw away messydos.  Even at best, it is very flaky on a 3000.
2) Get CrossDOS the demo version is read only, but is enough to get
   you started, and the real version is cheap ~$30.
3) Once it is installed, add the crossdos mountlist into S:mountlist,
   and change the name DI0: to IBMA:.  IBeM will now work as
   promised, assuming you have a good MS-DOS boot disk (I know,
   that's an oxymoron :))

Rick