PC0 drive?

[britonk]

I am trying to get the PC0 drive working on my A1200 so that I can transfer files to it from my PC via DD 720K floppies.

I remember I had this working when I was a kid and I can't get it to work now??? LOL

I have booted into Workbench and opened the shell and types "mount PC0".

Initially it told me that "PC0" couldn't be found so I changed the directory to one with the PC0 "device" in it and it successfully mounted the drive.

However - there is still no PC0 disk on my workbench screen and when I insert a DD floppy formatted on my PC it won't recognise it and comes up with DF0:

Any ideas folks?

[britonk]

OK,

I took a fresh copy of Workbench from the original disk.

Copied PC0 file from the Storage3.0 disk to the following:

Workbench3.0:Devs/DOSDrivers/

REBOOTED

At the SHELL prompt types "mount pc0:"

It told me the device was already mounted so I inserted my PC formatted DD floppy and it just came up DF0: (no other PC0 icon).

I remember this being a lot easier back when I was in collage.

Thanks for your continued help...

[britonk]

It's really DD - I have tried 3 different disks now in case it was that. This particular one is an old cover disk from an Amiga format magazine.

The drive makes clicking noises as if it can't read the disk. When I used to do this in collage I used PC1 not PC0 - I can't find my old external drive though.

[britonk]

crossdosfilesystem is in the l directory and mfm.device is in the devs directory.

Any other ideas?

[britonk]

OK contents of the pc0 file:

Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Device = mfm.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 1
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 9
Reserved = 1
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 79
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 600
Priority = 5
GloVec = -1
DosTye = 0x4D534400

I went into information on the pc0 icon but I couldn't find Unit tooltype? It just says pc0 (project) and gives some normal file attributes?

[britonk]

It's working! Thanks for your help guys.

I realised that PC0 didn't have a .info file so I created one by copying the PIPE.info already present. I then went into the properties of this file and changed the active tool type from =0 to =1

Thank you so much for your help!