Cd Rom on A2000 Question

[Piru]

Few clarifactions.

A: Crossdos is an integral part of WB 3.x

CrossDos is also included in Workbench 2.1.

A: Try Messydos. This is shareware, and it works on all Kickstarts from 1.2 and up. You can get it from the Aminet.

messydos doesn't handle VFAT, but XFS does. XFS is freely distributable.

XFS also works on AOS 2.x and 3.x, so if you want VFAT support and don't have CrossDOS V7, XFS is worth a look.

[Piru]

I am having diffidculty getting the Amoga to recognise the disks.

This is so called "chicken-egg" problem: In order to get the software you need to read the PC disks, you need to move some files to amiga. But how can you move the files if you can't read the PC disks in the first place?

So basically you're stuck, unless if you find some friendly local Amiga user who can write the software (XFS or messydisk) to Amiga formatted disk.

If you can't find such friendly person, you need to buy CrossDos from your Amiga dealer.