Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sidecar questions.
Keywords: Sidecar  1060  BridgeBoard
Message-ID: <5572@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 16:25:34 GMT
References: <871@hslrswi.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <871@hslrswi.UUCP> francis@hslrswi.UUCP ( Francis Demierre) writes:
>Now the answer and my comments:
>
>When I went to my dealer and asked about the JF-Handler, he did not understand
>what I wanted. I think he believed that I was talking about a new game, he 
>probably understood 'JF Lander' :-)
>After a long explanation, he promissed to call Commodore rep. in Switzerland.
>When I went back to him, he said: "CBM told me that 'JF-handler' is not part
>of the sidecar workbench, you have to buy it separately."

JF-Handler is not a supported part of the current Sidecar/Bridgecard
software.  Basically is was an attempt to allow the Amiga access
to the IBM disk.  Turned out there was no way to make that kind
of low-level shared access to the disk safe on the PC side without
an extensive BIOS rewrite.  So in the next software release the
JF-Handler was dropped, and replaced with the aread and awrite programs.

You really do need a software update; both on your Sidecar specific utilities
and probably your version of MS-DOS.  (Since when the Sidecar first
shipped, we were using MSDOS2.11)
-- 
andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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