Fat format discs.

[A4000_Mad]

@ psyco

Indeed! You cannot read/write to 1.44MB HD disks with the standard floppy drive of an A1200. But you could transfer files using an Amiga disk :-)

1. Insert the Amiga disk into the floppy drive of your PC

2. At an MS-DOS prompt type:-   format a: /n:9 /t:80

The Amiga disk will be turned into a 720K PC formatted disk which you can use to transfer data between your PC and Amiga.

Personally I've found that if I take the floppy to an A1200 and use PC0, I get a load of jumbled up or shortened file names.

(as you have said, when you first insert the PC formatted floppy you will get an icon DF0??? or DF0:Unreadable. But other icons appear for the same disk when you double click on other drivers as you can see in the screengrab below)

The best result I've found is to put the file fat95 into the L drawer of Workbench and then double click on the icon MS0.

In this screengrab created in an A1200 running OS3.9, you can see how a photo called 'Here is a pic.png' shows correctly using fat95 and MS0, but its name is shortened and displayed incorrectly under PC0 and CrossDOSFileSystem :-)

I dig that floppy disk icon with a Windows logo on it :-D

:idea:  You could always get an A4000 with High Density floppy drive to make use of all your 1.44MB disks. Either for tranferring stuff to/from your PC or turn them into 1.76MB capacity Amiga disks  :pint:


A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Quite correct of course mate :-) If you want PC0 activated each time you boot then Workbench:Devs/DOSDrivers is the place for it. I just put those files into RAM to show them in the  screengrab :-D

However, you can put PC0 or MS0 wherever you like and just go and double click on them when needed. To avoid unecessary icons on my screen I actually have mine in Workbench:Storage/DOSDrivers and activate them using a ToolsDaemon menu. If I insert a PC formatted floppy I then hold down the right mouse button and select 'Fat 95 Floppy Disk' from the menu as the path leads to MS0 :-)

:pint:

A4000 Mad