Missing CD drives

[Lando]

DomN76 wrote:
Ok, double clicked on the floppy icons:

RAM disk: 100% full, 0k free, 13k in use
Empty: 0% full, 1,188m free, 305k in use

I'm guessing 'Empty' is the HDD. There is, appropriately, nothing in it

Putting a CD into either drive results in no further icons appearing, unlike the floppy drive, which behaves as described above

When I type Mount CD0: in a shell box, nothing happens, it just goes to the next line, no error message

I used the format disk utility thing and it listed the following things that could be formatted:

CC0: - 20k capacity
DF0: - 880k capacity (the floppy drive??)
DH0: - 32m 12% used (the CD-RW I had in the drive??)
DH1: - 1189m 0% used (the HDD drive??)

Typing Mount DH0: gives the error message 'unknown command' or similar

DH0 and DH1 are both the hard drive - it's been partitioned into two partitions.  DH0 is your Boot partition which has Workbench on it.  DH1 is empty and you would generally store your programs, games etc on this partition.

Unlike Windows machines which usually just stick everything together on the same partition, Amigas usually have two or more partitions to keep the Operating System files separate from the user's data.

CC0 is your PCMCIA slot and, yes, DF0 is your floppy drive.

[Lando]

DomN76 wrote:

I'm having some trouble getting a floppy formatted at 720kb

Typing 'format /t:80 /n:9 A:' at a DOS prompt should work.  The old /f:720 doesn't work anymore in XP.

[DomN76]

Superb, thanks for all that Lando

I wondered what was going wrong with the /f switch, but assumed it was just me!

[AmigaPete]

Dom,
I only mentioned Directory Opus (v4.xx) because it is an essential tool. At least, I think so, and so do a lot of others. It can be used to simplify things like copying files. It is the equivalent to Windows Explorer, but much better.

Pete

Just thought of this... if that machine is a 1200 would you not be better off to get an IDE CDROM and just hook it up to the existing hard drive (IDE) cable? Of course, this assumes that there is only one drive on the interface.

[DomN76]

Sorry Pete, thought you meant directory opus for use on the PC (you do mean it for the amiga, right?)

[AmigaPete]

DomN76 wrote:
Sorry Pete, thought you meant directory opus for use on the PC (you do mean it for the amiga, right?)

Of course I mean Amiga  :-D

There is DOpus for PC but I did see something about it a while ago and it did not impress me - too much like that Magellan (DOpus v5) crap.

Pete

[twizzle]

ref the cd0 icon there is only 1  when you click it and drag it to dos drivers drawer it will make a copy of it when you have renamed it you do the same again there by still leaving 1 x cdo in the storage drawer
 this is how you get the 2 cd icons into dos drivers.

the easyest way to mount them is to double click them
which will then mount them  ( nothing will happen ) but if you double click them again it will say that they are mounted.

(when you get yourself a 4 way ide adapter or power flyer)