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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: ha4mnu on September 02, 2007, 08:20:43 PM

Title: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 02, 2007, 08:20:43 PM

Hello,

I have a zorro 2 catweasel in my a4000 060 and i am having problems with reading pc floppies. The amiga dd and hd reading are fine so the hardware must be fine.

When i put a pc 1.4 floppy in the disk drive and mount ph0: in cli there is no disk activity or information returned in cli window.

In the shell window i can type ph0: and i get a no disk in drive error. I have crossdos v42.5 and a dos driver is storage.

What am i missing?
I expect its a software problem or am i wrong?

thanks

Martin N

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: starf81 on September 02, 2007, 08:48:46 PM

Are you using a commercial version of CrossDOS?

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 02, 2007, 08:51:22 PM

Yes i am using a commercial version of crossdos.

Martin N

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: LoadWB on September 02, 2007, 09:11:36 PM

Does the floppy read properly on a real PC?

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 02, 2007, 09:15:23 PM

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LoadWB wrote:
Does the floppy read properly on a real PC?

Yes the pc reads the floppy fine

Martin N

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: starf81 on September 03, 2007, 08:29:21 AM

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ha4mnu wrote:
Yes i am using a commercial version of crossdos.

Martin N

The same happens here, too.
It seems that the commercial version of CrossDOS file system doesn't work with the Catweasel mountlists.

Alex

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: Jope on September 03, 2007, 08:51:04 PM

Why not use fat95? Free and works fine.

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: amigadave on September 03, 2007, 09:40:28 PM

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ha4mnu wrote:
Hello,

I have a zorro 2 catweasel in my a4000 060 and i am having problems with reading pc floppies. The amiga dd and hd reading are fine so the hardware must be fine.

When i put a pc 1.4 floppy in the disk drive and mount ph0: in cli there is no disk activity or information returned in cli window.

In the shell window i can type ph0: and i get a no disk in drive error. I have crossdos v42.5 and a dos driver is storage.

What am i missing?
I expect its a software problem or am i wrong?

thanks

Martin N

Looking at what you wrote above, is your driver in Storage, or Devs?  It won't work from the Storage Drawer.

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 05, 2007, 05:16:05 PM

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starf81 wrote:

Quote

ha4mnu wrote:
Yes i am using a commercial version of crossdos.

Martin N

The same happens here, too.
It seems that the commercial version of CrossDOS file system doesn't work with the Catweasel mountlists.

Alex

Do you use a workbench version of crossdos with the catweasel?
If so which version 3.0 or 3.1 or 3.9?


Martin N

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 05, 2007, 05:21:08 PM

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Jope wrote:
Why not use fat95? Free and works fine.

I havent got a clue how to use fat95 and i thought it was for hard drives anyhow. My amiga knowledge has faded of recent since moving over windies/linux.

Martin N

Title: Re: Zorro 2 catweasel and pc high density floppies
Post by: ha4mnu on September 05, 2007, 05:23:57 PM

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amigadave wrote:

Quote

ha4mnu wrote:
Hello,

I have a zorro 2 catweasel in my a4000 060 and i am having problems with reading pc floppies. The amiga dd and hd reading are fine so the hardware must be fine.

When i put a pc 1.4 floppy in the disk drive and mount ph0: in cli there is no disk activity or information returned in cli window.

In the shell window i can type ph0: and i get a no disk in drive error. I have crossdos v42.5 and a dos driver is storage.

What am i missing?
I expect its a software problem or am i wrong?

thanks

Martin N

Looking at what you wrote above, is your driver in Storage, or Devs?  It won't work from the Storage Drawer.

I moved the drivers to devs:dosdrivers but it still doesnt work  :(

"New Shell process 9
9.OS39Fuji:> mount ph0:
9.OS39Fuji:> ph0:
ph0:: no disk in drive
9.OS39Fuji:>"


Martin N