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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: britonk on September 29, 2007, 11:52:28 AM
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I am trying to get the PC0 drive working on my A1200 so that I can transfer files to it from my PC via DD 720K floppies.
I remember I had this working when I was a kid and I can't get it to work now??? LOL
I have booted into Workbench and opened the shell and types "mount PC0".
Initially it told me that "PC0" couldn't be found so I changed the directory to one with the PC0 "device" in it and it successfully mounted the drive.
However - there is still no PC0 disk on my workbench screen and when I insert a DD floppy formatted on my PC it won't recognise it and comes up with DF0:???
Any ideas folks?
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It's been a while but I'm sure you need the PC0 device in devs\dosDrivers?
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u sure do move it from storage to devs
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I have booted into Workbench and opened the shell and types "mount PC0". Initially it told me that "PC0" couldn't be found
: was missing, that's why it complained.
mount PC0:
when I insert a DD floppy formatted on my PC it won't recognise it and comes up with DF0:???
That is normal. You should see both PC0 and DF0 however. When amiga floppy is in the drive you should see PC0:??? and the amiga volume. When MSDOS floppy is in the drive you should see DF0:??? and the msdos volume.
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OK,
I took a fresh copy of Workbench from the original disk.
Copied PC0 file from the Storage3.0 disk to the following:
Workbench3.0:Devs/DOSDrivers/
REBOOTED
At the SHELL prompt types "mount pc0:"
It told me the device was already mounted so I inserted my PC formatted DD floppy and it just came up DF0:??? (no other PC0 icon).
I remember this being a lot easier back when I was in collage.
Thanks for your continued help...
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Copied PC0 file from the Storage3.0 disk to the following:
Workbench3.0:Devs/DOSDrivers/
REBOOTED
At the SHELL prompt types "mount pc0:"
It told me the device was already mounted
If you put it to devs/dosdrivers there is no need to separately "mount pc0:" it, it's mounted by the system automagically.
so I inserted my PC formatted DD floppy and it just came up DF0:??? (no other PC0 icon).
That's quite weird. Is the floppy really DD, or HD formatted as 720K?
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It's really DD - I have tried 3 different disks now in case it was that. This particular one is an old cover disk from an Amiga format magazine.
The drive makes clicking noises as if it can't read the disk. When I used to do this in collage I used PC1 not PC0 - I can't find my old external drive though.
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Do you have CrossDOSFileSystem in the L drawer on your Workbench disk?
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moto
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Ah, and devs/mfm.device is needed aswell.
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Oh yeah I forgot that one :-) All of those files should be on your Storage disk if they're not on Workbench.
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moto
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crossdosfilesystem is in the l directory and mfm.device is in the devs directory. :(
Any other ideas?
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Check your PC0 mountlist in case it has been modified. To do this, open up a shell and type in "type devs:dosdrivers/pc0". This will show you the PC0 mountlist. Also, go to the DEVS:DOSDrivers drawer on your Workbench disk, click once on the PC0 icon, go to the menu and choose "Information" and check the unit tooltype. Post the results here so we can check them for you.
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moto
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I forgot Crossdos the first time I did this as well.
Make sure you format the disk correctly if using XP.
I'm sure I had to use something like:
Format a:/n:9/t:80
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It shouldn't matter whether or not the disk is correctly formatted. It should still show an icon on the Workbench (PC0:???? if it can't recognise the format of the disk). If no icon shows up, then PC0 is not mounted properly.
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moto
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OK contents of the pc0 file:
Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Device = mfm.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 1
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 9
Reserved = 1
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 79
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 600
Priority = 5
GloVec = -1
DosTye = 0x4D534400
I went into information on the pc0 icon but I couldn't find Unit tooltype? It just says pc0 (project) and gives some normal file attributes?
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It's working! Thanks for your help guys.
I realised that PC0 didn't have a .info file so I created one by copying the PIPE.info already present. I then went into the properties of this file and changed the active tool type from =0 to =1 :)
Thank you so much for your help!
:)