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From: davidb@utpsych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 5 1/4" Floppy
Message-ID: <1989Mar20.225645.3404@utpsych.toronto.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 89 22:56:45 GMT
References: <1333@wasatch.UUCP> <5160029@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidb@psych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck)
Organization: Psychology, U. of Toronto
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In article <5160029@hplsla.HP.COM> tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
>> 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


Dos-2-Dos doesn't care if you have mounted the drive like PCUtil does (I have
d2d on my 5 1/4 and use it form there).  I once got the same problem too,
but, I couldn't figure it out and it then went away......


   Daveman

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