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From: beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert Beaty)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Question on Cartridge
Message-ID: <4392@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 09:33:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.4392
Posted: Fri Aug  8 09:33:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 11:22:12 EDT
Reply-To: beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert Beaty)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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  I have a question that I hope that someone out there can answer.
  Yesterday I was installing a disk drive on my 520ST. My system is:
    - 520ST with TOS in ROM and 1 Meg upgrade
    - Monochrome monitor
    - One single-sided SF354 disk drive (standard set-up)
I selected a disk drive (you have to do this in order to install a
new one) and changed the drive label to c, this I thought would
default to uppercase C. Well when I installed the drive the label
was a lower case c. When I double clicked the icon a window opened
up where a disk window should but insted of the usual 'C:\' I got
'Cartridge'. This is unusual in light of the fact that I do not have
a physical c drive, or a ram disk installed for c.
  When I tried to copy things into this window it said something like
'This folder unavailable for access' or something like that. When I
tried to copy a folder from A: to Cartridge it gave me no error
message, but it didn't show up as being copied either.
  To compound this bafflement I saved the Desktop so that the new
c (Cartridge) drive would remain on the desktop. When I re-booted
the system the icon was gone. I viewed the desktop.inf file and
I saw this:
     ( one of my normal drives )
  #M 00 00 00 ... A FLOPPY DISK@...         (not too worried about #'s)
     ( the c drive that opened as Cartridge )
  #C 00 00 00 ... c CARTRIDGE@ ...
   ^
   |----  This is the difference I found. If I changed this C to an M,
like the other disk drives, the icon would appear on boot-up. However,
when I double-clicked on it it would give the familiar 'Disk not available'
error I get when I try to double-click on my ram disk and have not
installed it yet. I could not copy files or folders to this modified
drive, but when I changed it back to a C in desktop.inf all was as
before and the icon was gone on boot-up.
  Questions:
  1) What is this? An icon for the cartridge port? If I plug something
     in there that the ST can read will it show up in this window?
  2) What does the C mean after the # in the desktop.inf file?
  3) If this is a window for the cartridge port, how do I keep it on
     the desktop?

  I would really be interested if anyone could shed some light on the
subject. I realize this is not really that pressing, but how many
other 'unknown' features are there to this system? Thanks for any
help you may provide.

				Bob

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