I am a newbie to CrossDOS, so assume I know nothing. I formatted a 720k floppy in my PC as FAT and then tested it in my 3000D, where it came up as DF0:
?. After digging around, I read the Amiga has to format it. So, under WB 3.1, I go to the format tool on my HDD. It sees my floppy but there is no option to format it. So, under HDtoolbox I install the CrossDOSFileSystem under L directory. I do a warm reboot, but its still DF0:?. So, I try typing crossdos under shell. I get a little window with a blank menu and a bunch of greyed out buttons. So, I'm at a loss of what I need to do.
You can choose to launch the PC0 at any time.. I have both my PC0 and PC1 in a drawer. I have an XL drive for PC disks and I don`t format them they will get read in the PC drive format. You should get 2 icons when loaded, the DF0:
? which means its not an Amiga disk and another, say 'empty' which is the PC disk. If you have fired up PC0: from the tool icon you should be able to use this as a PC formated disk and copy stuff to the Amiga. Best to get DOpus running and you can set one of your accessible drives as a PC drive and just copy stuff across. Very useful getting an XL Drive if you can... These read the bigger more common PC Disks. You don`t need to format anything on the Amiga really once you have a standard PC Formatted disk. You do get problems with file name length and FAT sometimes which can be cured by downloading a couple of tools off Aminet.
The XL drive made by Power Computing plugs into your drive on the back of the 3000. There is a patch needed which comes on a disk.
PS: When you click the PC0: or PC1: tool icon it tells you if the drive is mounted. Just put them both in your DEVS:DOSDrivers drawer... They are actually 'Projects'. Reboot the machine and when inserted the disk will appear with a CROSSDos icon... Ignore the Amiga DF0:
?.Just click to check the PC contents and copy or add to it.
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