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From: micha@ecrcvax.UUCP (Micha Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virtual Drives for the Bridgeboard
Message-ID: <503@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 16:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: micha@ecrcvax.UUCP (Micha Meier)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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Posted: Thu Feb 18 17:56:22 1988
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I've tried to use jlink.com to get virtual drives on the Amiga 3.5 drive, since
I wanted to put some software on one floppy and it was more than 600k.
After installing the program on the 3.5 floppy, I've of course set its write
protection because I don't want to write to it, especially not accidentally
and I want to avoid viruses as well (is an MS-DOS virus able to write
on this virtual drive at all?)

Now almost each time I want to access this virtual drive (e.g. making DIR)
Amiga would tell me 'disk write protected' and if I cancel it, I get
an error on the PC side. Is this behavior sound? When I'm using
a workbench floppy which is write protected, I also get the message but when
I cancel it, everything is ok.

Anyway, when I'm reading this newsgroup, my impression is that nobody is
really using the bridgeboard (or nobody has any problems with it?). Up to
now, I've been actually using only the PC and I do have problems all the time.
Perhaps it is only due to the sparse documentation to the bridgeboard,
I don't know. Does 'paste' always work on the PC? Sometimes I get really
wrong thing pasted. I've tried to use it like L8 on my Sun but, hum, it's
not the same.
Thanks for any hints, as usual.

--Micha

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