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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu!leblanc
From: leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc)
Subject: Re: Amiga <=> C64/128 Transferring ???
Message-ID: <1989Jun6.155721.14677@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Summary: Make sure 5.25 drive isn't mounted
Keywords: A1020, A1000
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
References: <15858@gryphon.COM> <2811@mibte.UUCP>

In article <2811@mibte.UUCP> jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
>I have been using the "Transfer" program which comes with the C64
>Emulator by Readysoft to do this.  I tried Disk-2-Disk and found
>it tended to err out a lot.  "Transfer" lets you hook up a
>standard 1541 to the Amiga.

I also got a lot of errors when I started using Disk-2-Disk.  The problem
was that my Startup-sequence was mounting the 5.25" drive (the Disk-2-Disk
manual says this is a no-no).  With an A2000, just don't include "mount
DF2:", but with an A1000 I had to turn off the A1020's power while booting
to get it to work (because I could only use DF1: for the A1020).  I'm sure
there's a better solution :-).

Since then, I don't get write errors except when I try to use $0.50 no-name
disks.  I keep one box of name brand disks around for Amiga->C64 transfers.

Marcel A. LeBlanc	  | University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada
leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu  | also: LMS Technologies Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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