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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 5 1/4" Floppy
Message-ID: <5160029@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 89 17:07:38 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> A While ago, I posted a note about hooking up a 5 1/4" drive to my Amy, and
> in the process, i ended up wiring up my own controller/interface.  But I
> still have a problem.  I have a mountlist entry for the drive, and I can
> the drive, format it, and put data on it in AMIGADOS format, with no problems.
> But when I try to use utilities like Dos-2-Dos, it tells me that the MS-DOS
> drive is not ready.  Would somebody mind explaining this to me.  Does
> AmigaDos ignore something that MS-DOS utilities dont?
> 
>          Max Derhak | u-mderha@ug.utah.edu.UUCP

I have a homebrew-hack 5.25 drive on my 1000.  There are cases where it
doesn't work with the PC utils.  Don't know if Dos-2-Dos expects things
same as PC Utils.  But PC Utils complain if you have mounted the disk.
Also, if I have a Starboard hung off the side, the 5.25 drive works fine
except that, again, PC Utils can't use it.  Never figured out just why.

Tom Bruhns
tomb%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com