How to initialize/test Amiga 1020 drive?

[bigdan]

Dragster : The A1020 is a 40 track drive (the Amigaos system automounts all 80 track drives, either 3"1/2 or 5"1/4). So you will have to write a mountlist like in earlier days of WB1.2/1.3 ! I'll suggest you simply check and adapt the mountlist file in Devs: directory on a WB1.3 (or 1.2) disk...

Mountlist sample (1.3 style)

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/* Mount a 5.25" disk drive to be mounted as DF1: */

DF1:       Device = trackdisk.device
           Unit   = 1 /* first external unit */
           Flags  = 1 /* important ! */
           Surfaces  = 2
           BlocksPerTrack = 11
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 39
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 1 /* or 3 if you run OS 1.x */
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Dosdriver form (2.x/3.x style)

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           Device = trackdisk.device
           Unit   = 1 /* first external unit */
           Flags  = 1 /* important ! */
           Surfaces  = 2
           BlocksPerTrack = 11
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 39
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 1 /* or 3 if you run OS 1.x */

Simply save it as DF1 (or A1020 if you prefer) in your Dosdrivers directory (generally in Sys:storage). Open a shell and try mount df1: (or A1020:) !

According to (french programmer) Etienne Vogt, the important thing is to set Flags=1 (tells the trackdisk.device that you really want to mount a 40 track drive, else it will ignore it)

You could also try to mount 360 Kb MS-DOS disks with something like (to save as PC1 dosdriver or A1020PC for example):

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FileSystem      = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Device          = mfm.device
Unit            = 1 /* first external unit */
Flags           = 1
Surfaces        = 2
BlocksPerTrack  = 9
Reserved        = 1
Interleave      = 0
LowCyl          = 0
HighCyl         = 39
Buffers         = 20
BufMemType      = 1 /* or 3 if you run OS 1.x */
StackSize       = 600
Priority        = 5
BufMemType      = 0
StackSize       = 600
Priority        = 5
GlobVec         = -1
DosType         = 0x4D534400
Mount           = 1


Another thing : your A1020 had an external power ?

[bigdan]

The old "Disk2Disk" program from Central Coast Software allows reading C64 disks (1541 and 1571 format diskettes) on the 1020.

As TjLazer said, same thing with th excellent 1541 on aminet/misc/emu

There also has many hacks to plug 1541/1571 drives on Amiga (generally via // port).



Personally, i select the Catweasel MK4 solution (robust and modern) to use with my Pegasos and PeeCee !