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Title: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: mikety on April 15, 2006, 05:45:38 PM

I have a PC floppy drive in my A1.  It doesn't show up in OS4 and I don't see it during boot-up.

How can I see if my floppy controller is working or that I connected it correctly to the floppy drive?  

How can I see this floppy drive under OS4?

Thanks.

Michael

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: RussellB on April 15, 2006, 10:03:47 PM

OS4 does not support the floppy drive on the Amiga One yet but you can use it under linux and uboot supports the floppy drive.

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: _yak_ on April 15, 2006, 10:13:16 PM

what? update 4 was suppose to contain pretty much everything that was going to be in the final release. so they wanted to release it without floppy support? I mean it's a basic thing, or not?

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: Matt_H on April 15, 2006, 11:36:31 PM

I think the "pretty much the final release" was a bit of an exaggeration. Update 4 doesn't have floppy support, but it is available to betatesters.

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: amyren on April 16, 2006, 12:44:14 AM

What about the Catweasel PCI card, is there drivers available for os4?

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: Matt_H on April 16, 2006, 04:23:04 PM

There's a tool available that generates disk images of whatever's in the drive, but no actual device driver yet.

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: adonay on April 16, 2006, 04:43:27 PM

why do you need floppy in an a1? thought there was a point in having a cd rom .. :lol: or even better memory stick .. welcome to 2006 we dont need floppys no more. perhapps on the classic but not the a1.. i dont see the point in making a floppy driver for os4 for the a1 at all

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: CLS2086 on April 16, 2006, 06:01:21 PM

Maybe because a got a tons of original disk that he planned to use again in its brand new TURBO FAST Amiga... :roll:

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: Piru on April 16, 2006, 06:39:04 PM

@CLS2086

That "TURBO FAST Amiga" can't read the amiga floppies even if it had the drivers.

Only catweasel can do that.

Title: Re: A1, OS4, and PC floppy
Post by: CLS2086 on April 16, 2006, 07:46:38 PM

Yes Piru I know, I have one in my peg  :lol: