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From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: External 3.5 info wanted
Summary: The df1=df2 hack
Message-ID: <3333@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 25 Jan 89 19:16:03 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <5160022@hplsla.HP.COM>, tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
> Hmmm.  Thanks for the info!  That explains something I think I saw posted
> at a local BBS that was supposed to make the 2000 think the external drive
> was the second internal drive.  If such a hack exists, maybe you would 
> find it useful...   maybe someone else could comment, 'cause not being a
> 2000 owner, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
> 
> Tom Bruhns
  
 I think I know the "fix" of which you speak, which is to make the 
external drive on the 2000 answer to the name of df1 as well as (or instead
of) DF2.  I think this is for brain-damaged software that assumes all the
worlds Amigas have only DF0: DF1: DH0: and RAM:.  Real clever, that. 
I don't think it does a thing to help the problem that I was speaking of,
as that one has to do with something deeper within the device driver 
logic rather than just the filing system.  
 
 If you have the details of how you built your 5.25" interface, I'm sure
  jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu would be more than happy to receive 
 details of same.  I kind of evolved mine as I went from the original
 piece in Amazing Computing and so don't have a very clean schematic
diagram to send.
 
     Scott Denham