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Title: Big Floppy Question
Post by: N3vpd on March 01, 2010, 02:11:28 AM

Hello, I have a Amiga 500 setup. When I put a floppy disk in any drive TWO Icons Come up. One That is DF0   And one that says PC0 And I don't know why  Please Help  Thank You To All.

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: smerf on March 01, 2010, 02:22:22 AM

Hi,

@N3vpd,

If you look in your System DEVS drawer you will see a device called PCO in it, this enables you to format a disc in the most popular format msdos, meaning that you can format a disk, put items on it from the Amiga and transfer it to a PC computer (not a MAC a lesser known computer) this also enable you to transfer files from a PC to a Amiga.

So you now have two ways to format a disk on your Amiga.

DF0 - regular Amiga ready disk
PC0 - a dos disk for PC computers

Also PCO acts just like an Amiga disk just click on it one time, format it, and then drop your files in it just like you do with an Amiga disk, then take the PCO disk and you can put it in any PC type computer.

The reason Amiga done this was they wanted to make the Amiga more compatible with the worlds favorite computer the PC.

smerf

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: ZeBeeDee on March 01, 2010, 02:23:17 AM

The PC0 is loaded from the DEVS/drivers folder. It's basically harmless as it allows you to format a floppy disk to PC 720kb standard for a somewhat easier way of file transferring between the two machines.

If you wish to stop the PC0 icon from appearing, either delete the PC0 file in DEVS/drivers or move the file out of the folder to somewhere else, say the Storage folder.

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: LoadWB on March 01, 2010, 02:27:20 AM

Quote from: ZeBeeDee;545649

The PC0 is loaded from the DEVS/drivers folder. It's basically harmless as it allows you to format a floppy disk to PC 720kb stndard for a somewhat easier way of file transferring between the two machines.

If you wish to stop the PC0 icon from appearing, either delete the PC0 file in DEVS/drivers or move the file out of the folder to somewhere else, say the Storage folder

I am soooo terribly disappointed in you!  "Folder"??!!  Man, this is Amiga! :roflmao:

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: ZeBeeDee on March 01, 2010, 02:29:09 AM

Quote from: LoadWB;545650

I am soooo terribly disappointed in you!  "Folder"??!!  Man, this is Amiga! :roflmao:

I'm sure I won't lose any sleep over your disappointment :laughing:

Just to keep some people happy ... replace the word 'folder' with the word 'directory'  in my previous post to this thread lol

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: desiv on March 01, 2010, 02:39:32 AM

You meant "drawer", right?  ;-)

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: N3vpd on March 01, 2010, 02:46:43 AM

Thank you so much. I should have know that. Im getting back in these after 15 years. Should have never left. Thanks again, MUCH!

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: kolla on March 01, 2010, 02:55:19 AM

The drawer is Devs/DOSDrivers. Typically you'd move the PC0 from there to Storage/DOSDrivers.

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: N3vpd on March 01, 2010, 02:55:56 AM

Thanks again Guys Fight nice!

Title: Re: Big Floppy Question
Post by: The Hanged Man on March 27, 2010, 03:44:33 AM

Don't you mean 'dir' ? or 'directory' ?