Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: A1200 Floppy Drive Issue  (Read 4080 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Floppy Drive Issue
« on: October 12, 2015, 10:45:48 PM »
If it works fine when you play off multiple-floppy disk games, then the drive itself is probably okay.

You're saying every time you insert a floppy after the OS loads, however, it puts two icons up on the screen for it, one of which is the PC icon (i.e., something like PC0:)?

What files do you have in Devs: dosdrivers and WBStartup?  Also S:User-Startup?
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Floppy Drive Issue
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2015, 11:58:16 PM »
The icon isn't going away because something is accessing the disk.  Probably the virus scanner.  It's the same thing like when you stick in a disk and open it's window - the disk icon won't disappear until after you close the window.

Remove PC0: through PC3: from Devs: Dosdrivers unless you are using them.  Remove the virus checker.  Does the problem continue?

You may have some other issue such as whatever version of dos.library you have installed, but the Amiga should be smart enough to detect whether you've installed an Amiga-format disk or a PC-format disk, and display only the correct icon.

My money is on the virus scanner trying to scan the bootblock of the disk.

Side thought - your install of 3.9 is screwed up.  Just from your car10150014.jpg screenshot.  Those icons are wrong.  Did you install 3.9 and then install some old version of CrossDos on top of it?

Side thought 2: - line #3 of your user-startup is wacky.  Not the way it's supposed to be done with 3.9 but not the cause of your problems either.  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: A1200 Floppy Drive Issue
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2015, 09:16:35 PM »
Quote from: scuzzb494;797832
You would be amazed that floppy drives are something I struggle to get.

Why?  AmigaKit sells them brand new for the princely sum of $22 USD.  Even though I hate floppies and hate swapping them out, I have five in a box, "just in case".

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=294
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos