Flyer Drives not showing on Workbench screen

[Matt_H]

The device and unit information might be in the DOSDriver itself (a plain text file), not the icon information. But note the naming conventions of the DOSDrivers - Fx0 is for unit 0, Fx1 is for unit 1, etc. (where x = A, B, or C). You shouldn't need to edit them, just have the correct one(s) enabled. I think the default install only puts Fx0 into Devs:DOSDrivers and the rest are in Storage. So if your devices are set to 3, then they won't show up by default.

And I think FlyerInit needs to run from user-startup, although I don't recall the exact arguments.

What version of the Flyer software are you using?

Been a while since I set up my Flyer, I may not have all this right
And FYI, Amiga-to-Flyer transfers (i.e., DH1 to Fx0) and vice versa are absurdly slow. Within the Toaster interface, Flyer to Flyer is fine.

[Matt_H]

Yes, that was it! I edited the DOSDriver files (FA0, FB0 & FC0) and found the line that had "CHAIN=x,UNIT=x" values and changed the UNIT=x to the SCSI address of the respective drive (A,B,C), rebooted, and voila! The drives appeared on the Workbench screen. Thanks, Matt!

Glad that worked, but...

 I'm not sure exactly how things work internally, so I'd suggest not having Fx0 be a unit other than 0, just to be safe. Something might get confused otherwise. So use, for example, Fx3 if your drives are jumpered to ID 3 (or rejumper the drives on each chain - I assume you have just one on each - to unit 0).

[Matt_H]

The 3 SCSI chains on the Flyer (A, B, and C) are independent, so you can have each drive set to 0 on its respective chain. That's what I've done, at least (so I have FA0, FB0, and FC0). Not sure what the "official" or "recommended" config is, though.

[Matt_H]

Any info on these questions would be useful:
1- How does one get rid of the ghosted amiga dos icons for the flyer drives that show on the workbench?
2- Where are the default desktop Flyer icons located? Would like to substitute default icons with smaller ones to possibly save on chip ram use.
3- How to snapshot the desktop Flyer icons to help keep the desktop neat if thats possible?

Thanks

1. Hmm, that doesn't happen on my system. Or I haven't noticed
2. Creating disk.info in the root of each drive would probably override the default. Not sure where the default would be, though. I think old versions of CrossDOS did something similar with default icons - not sure where those were, either.
3. Does the standard snapshot command not work? Maybe it will once disk.info exists? Not sure.