from PC to Amiga using disks

[kvasarnomad]

i just got a new shiny A1200 and i wanted to try somethings on aminet and i have read that in OS 3.1
you can read pc disks and i know how to activate the drivers and i know that i must use a DD disk.
i found 1! PC DD Disk it says 720kb IBM-PC
but my pc disk drive wont reconise it.
cant modern pc-drives read or write to these disks
and if i bought a hd-disk-drive for the a1200
would i be able to copy files from pc to amiga simple.
and are there any otherway of getting the files to amiga

[kvasarnomad]

well i guess the disk is damaged then.
but i cant use the amiga disks, can i?
and if not, can you still buy these old 720kb DS/DD pc disks in the shops

and if i buy a cd-rom drive for the A1200 will i be able to burn from the pc and read them on the Amiga?.
the cd´s are the same right?

[kvasarnomad]

Thanks for the help every1

[kvasarnomad]

Aaaarrrrrgggg nothing works!!
i could't format a hd-disk to be 720 in xp so i did it in ms-dos(and yes i covered the hd-hole on both sides)
but the amiga wont reconise it even then [DF0???] aarrgg

i have put the crossdos files in dev(pc0, pc1, .....)
(i have a hard-drive but i think its broken so the OS is read of disk)

so why, why won't it work

could there be anything im doing wrong  :-x  :-(  :-x  :-(  :-x  :-(  :-x  :-(  :-x  :-(  :-x  :-(  :-(  :-(

[kvasarnomad]

hey i just read in the wb3.1 manual that when a ms-dos disk is in the drive the icon df0? scould show and a pc0 with the name, but it also says that when the dos drivers are activated and you insert a ordinary amiga disk the icons df0 with the the name AND pc0? should show!
BUT when i put a ms-dos disk in the only icon that show is df0?(hey wheres that pc0) and when i insert a amiga disk the only icon that show then is df0 with name(hey again, wheres that pc0)

is't the cross-dos drivers working then :-?

[kvasarnomad]

do you have to run the program crossdos in the comodites drawer on extras disk to crossdos to work?

and if i buy a cd-rom drive do they come with the drivers on disks(silly question).
i have seen there are external cd drives with their own power source, but do you have to open the amiga or have it in a tower to have them installed